Bindibu CountryAccount of two expeditions into central Australia in 1951 and 1963; subsistence patterns of Pintubi; hunting, gathering; food preparation; material culture particularly production of spears, spear throwers and stone tools; aspects of social relations. |
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Aborigines Acacia agamids Alice Springs animals arid Arnhem Land bark Barney Bill Hosmer Bindibu birds break winds camels camp Carnegie carried chewing clay pan close clumps colour coolamon creek bed deep depot desert oaks digging sticks dingoes drought dwarf escarpment Eucalypts expedition feet fire flowers four-wheel drive fuel Giles Grevillea ground heat heavy Hidden Basin hills hunting implements inches Jeep journey kangaroo Kimai Kundjari Labbi Labbi Lake Mackay later leaves lived lizards loose sand Luritja Melaleuca glomerata miles Mt Doreen Mt Singleton mulga night nomadic plant rain Rainbow Serpent Range Rawlinson Range realised reconnaissance Red Cliff Pound resin rock rockhole rocky rough sand dunes sandal sandhills Sandy Desert seen shaft shelter shrubs snake spear spear-thrower species spinifex terrain tobacco tracks trailer travelled trees valley vehicle Waimbirr'ngi Walbiri wanari Western Australia Wirrarigulong women wood