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On the Aborigines of Australia / by Augustus Oldfield ; with an introduction by M Helen Henderson.

On the Aborigines of Australia / by Augustus Oldfield ; with an introduction by M Helen Henderson.
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ISBN 0859053598
Title On the Aborigines of Australia / by Augustus Oldfield ; with an introduction by M Helen Henderson.
Edition Limited casebound ed.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlisle, WA : Hesperian Press, c2005.
Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press, 2005.
©2005.
Description lviii, 74 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Note Oldfield, Augustus,
Originally published in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, n.s., vol. 3, 1865, pp 215-298.
Henderson, M. H.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Extensive and observant notes on the Aborigines of W.A. especially the Wadjandi tribe; theories re origin and movements of Aborigines within Australia; physical description, particularly of people in N.W. of Western Australia; psychology; religious beliefs and legends (W. Aus.); watchandie and An-gaur-die tribes; death and burial; magic and revenge; War-ra-na-noo-Ra tribe; marriage; initiation; recreations; dancing and singing; legends; weapons; material cultue; clothing; foodgetting and cooking; fire-making; cannibalism; language; pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary (Wadjandi); short vocabulary of the Champion Bay tribe collected by R.J. Foley (Nanda); (Nanda)
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