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 248
... dead . Long live the king . Old Ebeemelloowooloomool , alias Goggle - eye , is dead , king of the Elsey tribe . In his place reigns Tchunbah , alias Billy Muck . They were tired of the old man for a long time , and singing him dead— the ...
... dead . Long live the king . Old Ebeemelloowooloomool , alias Goggle - eye , is dead , king of the Elsey tribe . In his place reigns Tchunbah , alias Billy Muck . They were tired of the old man for a long time , and singing him dead— the ...
Page 349
... dead walk backwards . . . into the past . All over the continent to name the dead is to call them , as in Maeterlinck's Land of Memory in The Blue Bird , but theirs is no happy memory . The dead are vindictive to the living , having ...
... dead walk backwards . . . into the past . All over the continent to name the dead is to call them , as in Maeterlinck's Land of Memory in The Blue Bird , but theirs is no happy memory . The dead are vindictive to the living , having ...
Page 409
... dead . The mother immediately stirred in nervous fright , and cried to know the trouble , fearing another convulsion . " Realizing that shock to the mother might mean serious complications , that there was no medical help nearer than ...
... dead . The mother immediately stirred in nervous fright , and cried to know the trouble , fearing another convulsion . " Realizing that shock to the mother might mean serious complications , that there was no medical help nearer than ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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