Study of Aborigines on Groote Eylandt - some from Bickerton Island, Anindiljaugwa language, Wanunamagaaljuagba and Wanungenungubuju people; Settlement at Angurugu Mission (Church Mission Society); traditional kinship, terminology, marriage patterns, changing kinship and marriage systems, death ceremonies sorcery; songs; dances; changes in mortuary rituals; Christianity and syncretism; economic basis of community; dugong and turtle fishing; plant collection; food and cooking; division of labour; new cash economy; employment in mining and in commercial fishing; links with Macassans and basis of Anindiljaugwa language; Ritual and mythological sites, bark paintings
Analysis
Aboriginal communities. Culture change. Northern Territory. Groote Eylandt region
Australian Aborigines - Northern Territory - Groote Eylandt - Ethnography
Notes
Accompanying materials in A/V Area at DU120.A1.A94 No. 53A
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 222-224
Event
1974
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection