Description |
xviii, 226 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Includes index |
Summary |
Account of journeys with David Mowaljarlai to significant sites in the west Kimberley; includes associated mythology and religious knowledge - Wandjina, snake, celestial bodies, sun, weather, lightning, flood, clouds , insects, birds, kangaroo, sickness, culture heroes; stone arrangements; food preparation - kangaroo; mother -in-law relations; foundation of the law; creation beliefs and cosmology; origin of spirit children and conception; magical and healing powers of the banman (doctor/clever man) - cure of leprosy; after death beliefs and mortuary ritual; incorporation of christianity; autobiography of David Mowaljarlai - life on Kunmunya mission, recollections of J.R.B. Love, World War II; forms of dreams - Mowaljarlais visions - corpus Australis; world view; Appendix 1 - Features of a Wandjina; Appendix 2 - Waanangga, sugarbag; Appendix 3 - time periods - chronology; Appendix 4 - The body of Australia, corpus Australis; glossary of Aboriginal language |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Antiquities Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Aboriginal Australians Religion Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Astronomy Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Kimberley (W.A.) Antiquities |
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Rock paintings Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
Notes |
CIP confirmed |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
SC Reconciliation Group
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Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Religion.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Antiquities
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Religion
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Astronomy -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Astronomy -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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Rock paintings -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Rock paintings -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Sacred sites (Australian Aboriginal) -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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SUBJECT |
Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172 -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
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Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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Author |
Malnic, Jutta.
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LC no. |
93172521 |
ISBN |
187564105X |
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1875641068 (paperback) |
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