| Description |
143 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Pioneer library ; 1 |
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Pioneer library ; 1
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| Summary |
Personal account of the early life of a white man who was adopted by and, later, initiated into an Aboriginal tribe in South-West Queensland; general description of initiation ceremony, kinship rules for Burra tribes (lists totems & sections), marriage & criminal laws, social customs; camp life, myth of the Bandicoot people (Wailbri); account of meeting of tribal elders in 1916, resulting in burial of ritual objects because of breakdown of tribal life after passing of Aboriginal Protection Act; story of journey made c.1890 by Waddie Mundowie & remnant of Kalkadoon women after battle with police; notes on Cooktown, Kokoyimidir tribe, cannibalism, cave paintings at Laura, Sacred Spring at Ebbagoola (dried up after uninitiated men saw it), sacred storehouse; story of the Normanby woman whose death is recorded in cave painting near Laura; notes on killing ground 3m. from north end of Cape Flattery beach & 1m. inland, & another 1/2m. west of Cooktown for settling differences between the Yimidir and Padadgie tribes |
| Notes |
(Pioneer Library) |
| Subject |
Ryan, W. Michael, 1947-
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Ethnology -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
75519576 |
| ISBN |
0701602929 |
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