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 70
... leaving " a cone of stones " and a tree blazed " J.M.D.S. " at Brinkley's Bluff , about fifty miles west of Alice Springs . . . leaving a new ghost - dance to the Arundta people . North of Capricorn , they were looking for water again ...
... leaving " a cone of stones " and a tree blazed " J.M.D.S. " at Brinkley's Bluff , about fifty miles west of Alice Springs . . . leaving a new ghost - dance to the Arundta people . North of Capricorn , they were looking for water again ...
Page 171
... leaving a four- footed track iron - sharp and deep but too far and too swift to follow , leaving an altar of stones to some ungodly worship on top of a hill . This visitor from Queer Street took a lot of thinking out . In 1883 David ...
... leaving a four- footed track iron - sharp and deep but too far and too swift to follow , leaving an altar of stones to some ungodly worship on top of a hill . This visitor from Queer Street took a lot of thinking out . In 1883 David ...
Page 366
... leaving a baby a month old . Her sister , Murraburra , who had borne two children eleven years before , both dead , took the baby and fed it with the milk of her own breasts . " I saw her feed the child myself , " Paddy Cahill wrote ...
... leaving a baby a month old . Her sister , Murraburra , who had borne two children eleven years before , both dead , took the baby and fed it with the milk of her own breasts . " I saw her feed the child myself , " Paddy Cahill wrote ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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