Along the Great Divide [by] Bill Beatty
- Bib ID:
- 1512774
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beatty, Bill
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] Cassell Australia [1969]
- viii, 191 p. illus. (part col.) maps (on lining paper) 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0304939560
- Summary:
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Includes mention of Aboriginal tribes being afraid of Kalcajagga, now the Black Mountains near Cooktown p. 3; describes Christie Palmerston living with Aboriginal people p. 6-7; states that Jackey Jackey accompanied Kennedy on his disastrous expedition to Cape York in 1848 p. 10-11; recounts the massacre of white settlers by Aboriginal tribes, led by deserters from the native police force's trackers, and the subsequent reprisals p. 24; mentions two Aboriginal people accompanied Leichhardt on his ill-fated 1848 expedition p. 28; mentions clashes and reprisals in Queensland along with tales of bunyips p. 28-29; talks of Aboriginal fear of Mount Beerwah in the Glasshouse Mountains p. 39; includes piccabeen palm spathes being used for Aboriginal water containers p. 39-40; describes Aboriginal tree climbers, initiation, hunters and gatherers, and tribal battles p. 44-45; story about how the jabiru is known as the bird of silence p. 56; story about the creation of the waratah p. 106-107; story of the Ice Maidens p. 121-122; purported etymology of the word Crackenback p. 140-141; story about Bogong moths as a source of food during drought p. 147-148; mentions the Grampians, the 'mountains of the dreamtime', caves and painting p. 170; records the story of the platypus and water-rat p. 177-180; images of the bunyip between p. 48-49.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 182.
- Subject:
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- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Initiation
- Body - Decoration - Down and feathers
- Weapons
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Feuds and warfare
- Literature and stories - Non fiction - Scientific and professional
- Law enforcement - Police trackers
- History
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tree climbing
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - Aboriginal guides
- Art - Body art - Face
- Animals - Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies / Moths
- Stories and motifs - Plants
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Costume and clothing - Belts and waistbands
- Technology - Containers - Water carriers
- Stories and motifs - Platypus
- Body - Scarification
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Great Dividing Range
- Glass House Mountains (SE Qld SG56-15)
- Australia
- Gariwerd / Grampians (W Vic SJ54-03, SJ54-07, SJ54-08)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1969
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