| Description |
xvi, 265 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Story of Alexander Kennedy, Scottish migrant who arrived at Rockhampton in 1861; p.31-34; Details of Cullin-la-ringo massacre and Fraser massacre at Hornetbank; p.85-91; Aboriginal/white relations, native police, quotes Parry-Okeden report; p.94-97; Massacre at Woonamo waterhole 12m. from Sulieman Creek homestead, 1878, hunt for murderers, piebald native among murderers, notes on cannibalism quoting Andrew Petrie; p.121-125; Disperses party of natives who raided homestead, killed cattle; warning of subsequent raid given by native servant, free translation of songs from preparatory corroboree, Kennedys complaints at police headquarters, Brisbane; p.126- 139; Authors meeting with natives near Wollogorang Station between Burketown and the Roper River; general description of Aboriginal life, quotes W.E. Roth on the Kalkadoons in Cloncurry district; nomadic hunting & gathering existence, use of fire, domestication of dingo; three types of shelter among Cloncurry tribes; north of Cloncurry, huts on raised platforms to avoid flooding, fires to prevent mosquitoes; dress & ornaments; use of coolamon, skin water bags, hair or string dilly-bag, hafted greenstone axes, other weapons; camp fights, womens fights; brief notes on class system with example for Upper Flinders River tribe; death & sickness attributed to enemies, bone pointing described; message sticks sent by Kalkadoons to Georgina River tribes to arrange trade markets; galah & lizard myth; pituri bartered on the upper Mulligan River; dance steps, boomerangs & thigh slapping as accompaniment; feathers, ochres & copi as ceremonial decorations Kalkadoon & Mitakoodi attitude to white men; p.141-145; Murder of Beresford (officer in charge of Native Police, Cloncurry district), F.C. Urquharts work with Native Police to track murderers; p.148-149; p.177-186; Tracking down of natives who continued to attack white settlers & spear their cattle |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Maps on endpapers |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [253] |
| Notes |
RB copy - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Kennedy, Alexander, 1837-1936
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Pioneers -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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Queensland -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481 -- 1824-1900
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Queensland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116481
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
51023650 |
| ISBN |
0207121125 |
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