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Eastern Arnhem Land Aboriginals today / Howard Morphy & Rhys Jones.

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Field name	Details
Author	Morphy, Howard (author.)
Title	Eastern Arnhem Land Aboriginals today / Howard Morphy & Rhys Jones.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Sydney : Aboriginal Arts & Crafts, c1978.
Description	84 slides (colour), 2 sound cassettes (154 minutes), 1 booklet (48 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm), 1 chart (69 x 36 cm, folded to 19 x 17 cm)
Summary	Collection of slides and accompanying booklet on lives of Gidjingali and Yolngu peoples of Arnhem Land; features - history and cultural influences (including Macassan), travel and communication (canoe making), settlements, land and mythology (includes Cape Shields, and Trial Bay), use of fire, hunting and gathering (fish traps, shell fish, Cycad preparation, fishing, dugong hunting and cooking), making dilly bags, cutting bark, teaching, religion and ceremonial life (initiation, burial)
Local note	Not held: 1 chart (69 x 36 cm, folded to 19 x 17 cm)
Subjects	Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
	Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
	Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
	Arnhem Land (N.T.)
	Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons	Jones, Rhys, 1941-2001 (author.)
Call number	EM-I EDW (Kit 2)