| Description |
xxiii, 220 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
History of first contacts with Worora people; description of Glenelg River paintings and reasons for re-painting; comments on Wondjunas - horde names for Wondjunas; tribal organization, ill-treatment of wives; details of foods, hunting, cooking; relationship gestures, avoidance, punishment for adultery; womens duties; the horde-marriage rules, infanticide, childbirth, childhood, personal names, circumcision, cicatrization, folk-tale, cannibalism; death and funeral rites, mourning; Black law v white law; child conceived in dreams, naming; messages and messengers; use of fire; sickness and treatment, old age; dancing and mimicry; types of canoes; native tobacco; tools, utensils, manufacture of spear points; laws and conflict; linguistic information, includes grammar outlines; notes on early visits by Malay trepangers; initiation rite in detail; etiquette of visitors (Wunambal, Kambre, Kwini and Miwa); general beliefs |
| Notes |
From the Turner collection |
| Subject |
Love, J. R. B. (James Robert Beattie), 1889-1947.
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Derby Region
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Social life and customs.
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Funeral customs and rites -- Australia -- Western Australia.
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Religion.
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs
|
|
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
|
|
Missionaries -- Australia -- Biography.
|
|
Worera (Australian people)
|
|
Worora (Australian people)
|
| SUBJECT |
Western Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117435
|
|
Worora (W.A.)
|
| LC no. |
37002751 |
|
