Faces in the sun : outback journeys / Sandra Le Brun Holmes
- Bib ID:
- 1360071
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Le Brun Holmes, Sandra
- Description:
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- Ringwood, Vic. : Viking, 1999
- 472 p., [16] p. of plates (some col.) : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0670877387
- Summary:
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Autobiography of film maker and anthropologist, Sandra Le Brun Holmes, who spent her early childhod on a sheep station in the far northwest of New South Wales playing with the Aboriginal children on the station ; as a young woman she travelled alone through the desert areas of Western Australia, recording Aboriginal songs and religious beliefs from various clans. Later she became a field worker for the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and a documnetary film maker with her husband Cecil Holmes.
- Notes:
- Bibliography.
- Subject:
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- Le Brun Holmes, Sandra
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs
- Music - Vocal - Clan songs
- Sound recording - Music
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Mining industry - Uranium
- Film - Ethnographic
- Film - Film making
- Media - Film
- Mining industry - Bauxite / Aluminium
- Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Milingimbi (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Wugularr / Beswick (NT Top End Upper Roper SD53-09)
- Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Goulburn Islands (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Elcho Island (East Arnhem Land NT SC53-15, SD53-03)
- Northern Territory (NT)
- Kalgoorlie-Boulder (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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