The TerritoryGeneral ref. to physical & mental characteristics, effect of white contact, relations with early settlers; Malay influence in Arnhem Land; Brief mention of fish weirs on Daly River, census of Larrakea (in 1870); stone arrangements near MacaArthur River Station; cave paintings & skeletons in Walgandu cave near Mountain Creek (Roper River tributary); paintings near Ooraminna Rockholes; Account of organization & life of Warramunga people; General beliefs supertitions, food and birth customs; Many tribes mentioned. |
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Page 40
... Territory police , off duty in khaki shorts and shady felt hat , went digging in the sands of Melville Island near Point Barlow with a mission black - boy and his tracker . They unearthed , in three pieces , a heavy old goblet of cut ...
... Territory police , off duty in khaki shorts and shady felt hat , went digging in the sands of Melville Island near Point Barlow with a mission black - boy and his tracker . They unearthed , in three pieces , a heavy old goblet of cut ...
Page 121
... Territory in 1933 , Union Reefs , Extended Union and Lady Alice , twenty or thirty big mines within a twenty - mile radius of Pine Creek , were sold for £ 12 . . . acres of machinery , poppet - heads , steel - lined shafts , two towns ...
... Territory in 1933 , Union Reefs , Extended Union and Lady Alice , twenty or thirty big mines within a twenty - mile radius of Pine Creek , were sold for £ 12 . . . acres of machinery , poppet - heads , steel - lined shafts , two towns ...
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... Territory's garden seemed lovely , W. S. Campbell , Director of Agriculture , in three months had made three selections of first- class farming country - at Batchelor , sixty miles south of Darwin , the second on Daly River , and the ...
... Territory's garden seemed lovely , W. S. Campbell , Director of Agriculture , in three months had made three selections of first- class farming country - at Batchelor , sixty miles south of Darwin , the second on Daly River , and the ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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