Jilji, life in the Great Sandy Desert / Pat Lowe ; with Jimmy Pike
- Bib ID:
- 205254
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lowe, Pat, 1941-
- Description:
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- Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 1990
- 147 p. : col. ill., map, col. ports. ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0958810125
- 1875641181 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Aspects of Walmajirri life as told to the author by people who once inhabited the Great Sandy Desert; use of waterholes; childrens games; birth and death; shelter; food, hunting and gathering; medicines; use of fire; cooking; concepts of time and distance.
- Notes:
- Available from Magabala Books, PO Box 668, Broome WA 6725.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert -- Social life and customs
- Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
- Recreation - Play - Children
- Walmajarri / Walmatjarri people (A66) (WA SE51-16)
- Hunting
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Psychology - Cognition - Perception
- Language - Vocabulary - Word lists
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Great Sandy Desert (W.A.)
- Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pike, Jimmy
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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