Description |
232 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Darwin, yesterday and today -- East Arm Leprosarium -- Rum Jungle and St. Barbara's of Batchelor -- Port Essington -- Jesuit pioneers -- Bathhurst Island -- Bishop Gsell -- By Lugger to Melville Island -- Down the Daly River-O -- Overland to Port Keats -- Down the track -- North-West passage -- In the outback cattle country -- To the Ord and home again -- Aboriginal Madonna and native art -- A cathedral is built |
Summary |
Semi-fiction; Missions, cattles stations, settlements Life of half-castes on Croker Island; Full story of Father Confalonieri who met 7 tribes on Coburg Peninsula, prepared maps of the country and a small vocabulary of tribal dialects used; Description of life in leprosarium; Bathurst and Melville Islands tribes split up into 9 sub-tribes (4 on Bathurst and 5 on Melville); Work of Bishop Gsell; Darwin, Daly River, Newcastle Waters, Port Hedland (rock carvings), Katherine; The painting of the Aboriginal Madonna by Karel Kupka and its meaning to natives, work by Punduk, Simon and Mawalan |
Analysis |
Northern Territory - Description and travel |
Notes |
Introduction by Keith Willey, who helped in preparing text |
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Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Restricted |
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress |
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions
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Catholic Church -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions
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Catholic Church -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Northern Territory
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Catholic Church -- Missions
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Australia
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SUBJECT |
Catholic Church. fast |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions
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Catholic church -- Northern Territory
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Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory
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Missions -- Australia
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Language -- Vocabulary
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Art -- Rock art -- Engraving
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Health -- Infectious diseases -- Leprosy
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Missions.
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Travel.
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SUBJECT |
Northern Territory -- Church history
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Northern Territory -- Church history
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Australia -- Description and travel
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Northern Territory -- Description and travel
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Subject |
Croker Island (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
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Cobourg Peninsula -- Gurig National Park (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
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Darwin River (NT Top End SD52-04)
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Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
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Daly Waters (North NT SE53-01)
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Newcastle Waters (North NT SE53-05)
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Port Hedland (WA East Pilbara SF50-04)
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Yermalner -- Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
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Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
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Northern Territory.
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Australia.
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Author |
Willey, Keith, 1930-1984
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LC no. |
xcc00004551 |