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Author Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951

Title The native tribes of Western Australia / Daisy Bates ; edited by Isobel White
Published Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1985

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  306.0899915 Bat  AVAILABLE
 MELB  306.0899915 Bat/Nto  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 387 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsim., map ; 25 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary An arrangement of Bates ethnographic manuscripts originally prepared during work for the Western Australian Government (1904-1912) for a proposed book of the same title; includes detailed editorial commentary concerning arrangement, deletion and sources and an introductory biography and background to the work; covers mainly material from the southwest, Murchison and northwest (Kimberley) regions; includes detailed information on tribal organisation and geographic location; social organisation, including moieties, semi-moieties, sections, relationship terms, marriage arrangements, bestowal, elopements, illicit marriages, sexual relations, conception, childbirth, child-rearing and avoidance rules; male initiation in the Bunbury, Vasse and Broome districts; totemism; religion, including moral code, mythic origins and beliefs about death; magic and sorcery, including bone pointing, healing and rainmaking; food procurement and preparation, including techniques, seasonality and division of labor; art and craft, including cave painting, rock engraving, manufacture of weapons and implements, bartering and trade; diseases and remedies; death and burial practices; dances, songs and ceremonies, including body adornment, songs texts and musical accompaniment
Analysis Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Social life and customs
Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
Aboriginal Australians Australia Western Australia
Aboriginal Australians Australia Western Australia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 373-378
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951.
Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
Aborigines, Australian -- Western Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Social life and customs
Aborigines, Australian -- Western Australia -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1901-1914
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Mortuary customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Legends
Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever People.
Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people.
Art - Rock art - Engraving.
Art - Rock art - Painting.
Body -- Decoration -- Body modification.
Art -- Rock painting.
Religion -- Rites -- Increase.
Food -- Sociocultural aspects -- Avoidance.
Ceremonies -- Rain making.
Magic and sorcery -- Clever people.
Environment -- Climate and weather -- Seasons.
Food -- Preparation -- Cooking.
Dance -- Ownership.
Gender relations -- Division of labour.
Music -- Vocal -- Origins.
Language -- Vocabulary -- Word lists.
Ceremonies -- Initiation.
Health -- Physiology and diseases.
Religion -- Totemism.
Reproduction -- Childbirth.
Indigenous knowledge -- Health and medicine.
Social organisation -- Avoidance rules -- Avoidance relationships.
Social organisation -- Kinship -- Systems -- Moieties.
Reproduction -- Conception.
Social organisation -- Kinship -- Marriage -- Wrong marriage.
Death -- Mortuary -- funeral ceremonies.
Religion -- After death beliefs.
Gender relations -- Elopement.
Art -- Rock engraving.
Technology -- Utensils.
Technology -- Tools.
Social behaviour -- Socialisation -- Child rearing.
Language -- Vocabulary -- Human classification.
Body -- Decoration.
Aboriginal Australians.
Health -- Treatments -- Traditional -- Clever People.
Art -- Rock art -- Engraving.
Art -- Rock art -- Painting.
Art - Rock engraving.
Art - Rock painting.
Language - Vocabulary - Word lists.
Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage - Wrong marriage.
Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing.
Ceremonies - Initiation.
Body - Decoration.
Body - Decoration - Body modification.
Religion - Rites - Increase.
Food - Sociocultural aspects - Avoidance.
Ceremonies - Rain making.
Magic and sorcery - Clever people.
Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons.
Food - Preparation - Cooking.
Dance - Ownership.
Gender relations - Division of labour.
Music - Vocal - Origins.
Health - Physiology and diseases.
Religion - Totemism.
Reproduction - Childbirth.
Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.
Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships.
Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties.
Reproduction - Conception.
Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies.
Religion - After death beliefs.
Gender relations - Elopement.
Technology - Utensils.
Technology - Tools.
Language - Vocabulary - Human classification.
Weapons.
Wardandi people (W3) (WA SI50-06)
Cannibalism.
Fishing.
Hunting.
Gathering.
Stories and motifs.
Sex relations.
Trade and exchange.
Westaustralien.
Gascoyne -- Murchison area (WA SG50)
Wupipi -- Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
Gascoyne / Murchison area (WA SG50)
Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
Western Australia.
Murchison River (WA South Pilbara SG50)
Bunbury (SW WA SI50-06)
Vasse River (SW WA SI50-05)
Western Australia.
Aborigines.
Author White, Isobel.
National Library of Australia
LC no. 85225536
ISBN 0642993335