Title Brown men and red sand : wanderings in wild Australia / by Charles P. Mountford

Published Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, [1948]

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Description xv, 181 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 23 cm Summary Musgrave, Mann, Tomkinson Ranges, Mount Olga and Mount Connor, Ayers Rock; Bidjandjadjara childrens games, secular dances; initiation; Dreamtime legends; magic & medicine men; Ayers Rock legends and paintings; Big Sunday; burial ritual; games; hunting and cooking; distribution of food; rainmaking ritual; legends and cosmogony; conception beliefs Notes Includes index Map on lining papers Other eds. have subtitle: Journeyings in wild Australia Bibliography Includes index Notes Also issued online Donated by Margaret Carnegie Subject Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia. Aboriginal Australians. Anthropology -- Australia. Ethnology -- Australia, Central Ethnology -- Australia. SUBJECT Central Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035352 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Author Cleland, John Burton, 1878-1971. LC no. 49010362

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