Introduction -- Exhibition plan -- Ngurunderi's dreaming track -- The Ngurunderi dreaming -- Bark canoes -- A dinner camp 5000 years of history -- The Murray River a Ngarrindjeri landscape -- Fishing -- Making fishing nets -- Hunting and food gathering -- Hunting water birds -- Plant medicine -- Families, clans and land -- Shelter and clothing -- Preparing food -- Initiation -- games and play -- Wood-carving -- Basketry -- Reeds and grass-trees -- family land -- Conflict and law -- The ancient tools of Wyrie Swamp -- Parnka midden -- Ramong (Encounter Bay) -- Kangaroo Island an archaeological mystery -- Death and the afterlife -- Ngarrindjeri people today
Summary
Catalogue prepared to accompany an exhibition of the culture of the Ngarrindjeri people of the lower Murray and Coorong areas of South Australia; brief account of the Ngurunderi Dreaming; traditional life and ceremonies; family customs; technology; conflict and law; the ancient tools of Wyrie Swamp; provides information about what can be learned from a midden; photographs and paintings from around Ramong (Encounter Bay); includes brief information on the Ngarrindjeri people today
Notes
Cover title
Map and text on cover verso
Bibliography
Bibliography inside back cover
Issuing Body
Accompanies exhibition held in the South Australian museum
