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 341
Each night they killed him in his pale and painted effigy , stabbed him , smothered him , held him down to drown , around the red fires in their Stone Age rhythm and chanting , levelling their painted spears at the tent - light ghostly ...
Each night they killed him in his pale and painted effigy , stabbed him , smothered him , held him down to drown , around the red fires in their Stone Age rhythm and chanting , levelling their painted spears at the tent - light ghostly ...
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A wild life protection society in itself , apart from its religious significance , is the law that none may kill and eat ... Many a bushman was killed in the earlies because when employing lubras he refused to allow them to take tucker ...
A wild life protection society in itself , apart from its religious significance , is the law that none may kill and eat ... Many a bushman was killed in the earlies because when employing lubras he refused to allow them to take tucker ...
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I killed a wether goat an ' baked it in the old camp - oven , an ' laid a bush table in the bough shed with an Adelaide Chronicle I had , knives an ' forks an ' mugs an ' tomato sauce . I was opening some tins of fruit when Jerry ...
I killed a wether goat an ' baked it in the old camp - oven , an ' laid a bush table in the bough shed with an Adelaide Chronicle I had , knives an ' forks an ' mugs an ' tomato sauce . I was opening some tins of fruit when Jerry ...
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So if this book is called The Territory - why is the cover an image of the state of Queensland?
Contents
Chapter Page 1 WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Territory Walkabout pocketbooks |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0725400196, 9780725400194 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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