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Brimming billabongs.
LIBRA DU397.5 .H28 1963
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harney, W. E. (William Edward), 1895-1962.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marmel Kadgalee.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Makasar (Indonesian people).
- Manners and customs.
- Northern Territory--Description and travel.
- Northern Territory.
- Travel.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Robert Hale, 1963.
- Summary:
- "Harney here uses his superb gifts as a storyteller to relate the true story of an aboriginal of the Uwadga tribe, whose people once lived and hunted eighty miles east of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory."
- Contents:
- 1. The tale begins
- 2. Macassa
- 3. Trepang
- 4. Camp life
- 5. Hunting
- 6. Initiation
- 7. Yeragul
- 8. Pearling
- 9. Inland
- 10. The cattle station
- 11. Runaways
- 12. Nalyinda
- 13. The sandstone natives
- 14. The little man
- 15. Droving
- 16. Water
- 17. Yammabunda
- 18. War
- 19. Gouging
- 20. The long way back.
- Notes:
- Originally published, Angus & Robertson. 1947.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the Storey Family, in memory of Dr. Bayard T. and Frances E. Storey.
- OCLC:
- 59018518
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