Title Knights and theodolites : a saga of surveyors / comp. and written by F.M. Johnston ; With a foreword by R.D. Fitzgerald

Published Sydney NSW : Edwards & Shaw, 1962

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	526.9 Joh/Kat		AVAILABLE

Description volumes : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles, tables ; 22 cm Summary Record of W.A. land and survey operations; p.69-75; Bunbury - account of burial (A. Bussel c.1840); population, beehive huts, dress, fire-making, bags, food, employment (A.F. Clifton, 1840); p.100-103; Geraldton 1841 - notes on paths, yam digging grounds, huts, graves, dress (M.W. Clifton); contact with Aborigines, Gantheame Bay (H.M. Ommanney, 1834); p.117; Body mutilation, circumcision, Murchison River (J. Forrest, 1876); p.141-144; Kimberleys - grass burning; Lubbock Range - circumcised men seen, pierced noses; King Leopold Range - burial; Ord River - physical appearance, circumcision, scarification, reasons for burning grass; Fitzroy Crossing cave paintings discovered (H.F. Johnston 1884) - Kimberleys burial - adult and child, unmarried men have boy companions (L.A. Wells, 1896-7); p.147; Native well at Nilli-Bubbaca; p.177-179; Yeeda Station, Derby - comments by author on conception, circumcision, scarification, status of women, weapons, fighting, medicine men, use of narcotic shrub to stupefy fish; p.181-182; Udialla Springs diet included fruit of Leichhardt Pine, water from coolabah tree; p.183; Renegade activities of Aboriginal Pigeon and Captain, King Leopold Range, 1894-1897; p.215; Native soak Noonreragooda, near Murchison River; map shows wells, cave paintings Analysis Johnston family Western Australia - Genealogy Notes Stamped on t.p.: Distributed by Sportshelf, New Rochelle, N.Y RB copy - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Clifton family. Surveying. SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Surveys http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001768 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Surveys. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001768 Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172 -- Surveys http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001768 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Kimberleys, Western Australia -- Surveys -- History Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Surveys http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001768 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 LC no. 65004430

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