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Author Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976.

Title Aboriginal conception beliefs / Charles P. Mountford
Published Melbourne : Hyland House, 1981

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 ADPML SPC  299.92 Mou/Acb  LIB USE ONLY
Description 72 pages : illustrations, 2 maps ; 22 cm
Contents Includes: Site 1: Mount Freeling -- Site 2: Flinders Ranges -- Site 3: Western Lake Eyre -- Site 4: Ooldea -- Site 5: Mount Margaret -- Site 6: Niunka -- Site 7: Winbaraku -- Site 8: Ayers Rock -- Site 9: Alice Springs -- Site 10: Hermannsburg -- Site 11: Haast Bluff -- Site 12: Mount Liebig -- Site 13: Unkaruna -- Site 14: Inalukula -- Site 15: Hooker Creek -- Site 16: Tennant Creek -- Site 17: North Queensland, unlocalised -- Site 18: Tully Hills -- Site 19: Cape York -- Site 20: Archer River -- Site 21: Bloomfield River -- Site 22: Coleman River -- Site 23: Roper River -- Site 24: Groote Eylandt -- Site 25: Yirrkalla -- Site 26: Milingimbi -- Site 27: Oenpelli -- Site 28: Melville Island -- Site 29: Darwin -- Site 30: Port Keats -- Site 31: Victoria River -- Site 32: Forrest River -- Site 33: Collier Inlet -- Site 34: Kimberley Ranges -- Site 35: East Kimberley -- Site 36: Pewah Hill -- Site 37: Walcott Inlet -- Site 38: Beagle Bay -- Site 39: Yampi Sound -- Site 40: Roebourne -- Site 41: Dampier Peninsula -- Site 42: Jigalong -- Non-physical paternity and maternity -- Unorthodox entry of spirit child into mother -- The distribution of conception beliefs
Summary Summaries of beliefs in 42 site locations ; conception ceremonies ; physical paternity ; spirit child
Analysis Australian Aborigines. Conception beliefs
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 69-70
Includes index
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Copy 3: Donated by ATSIC Library
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Conception -- Religious aspects.
Conception -- Folklore.
Conception -- Mythology.
Conception -- Mythology -- Australia.
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
ISBN 0908090277