And far from home / T.E.A. Healy
- Bib ID:
- 2339686
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Healy, T. E. A. (Thomas Edward A.)
- Description:
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- London : Michael Joseph, 1936
- 256 p. [12] leaves of plates : ill., maps on lining papers ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Popular account, Broome - Darwin areas; p.104-112; Beagle Bay Mission - history, conditions, cooroboree; p.144-150; Darwin - meeting with Tuckiar after his release from prison (Woodah Is. murders); court cases, farce of white courts; p.162; traditional way of breaking betrothal (Port Keats); p.163-165; Stanners survey - totemic hills (Brinken tribe); effect of poor administration; p.179-183; Mortuary ceremony delayed until natives could attend (Darwin); p.186-188; Melville Is. - prostitution with Japanese; p.196-204; Daly R. - fights & killings over women; note on burials (platform & sand), behaviour in foreign territory, hostilities Brinken, Mulluk Mulluk & Moiil people; p.216-225; Bathurst Is. - conditions; p.229-237; Tracking & capture of murderer Minamara; p.249-253; Circumcision ceremony (Darwin); Throughout gives comments on problems of detribalised & half-caste population.
- Subject:
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- Healy, T. E. A. (Thomas Edward A.)
- Pearl fisheries -- Australia, Northern
- Aeronautics -- Competitions -- Northern Territory
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Marrithiyel people (N7) (NT SD52-07)
- Malak Malak people (N22) (NT SD52-08)
- Gender relations - Betrothal
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Religion - Totemism
- Sex relations - Prostitution
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Law enforcement - Prisons
- Broome (W.A.) -- Description and travel
- Northern Territory -- Description and travel
- Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
- Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Woodah Isle (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07)
- Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)
- Daly Waters (North NT SE53-01)
- Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
- Wadeye / Port Keats (Daly River NT Top End SD52-11)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1936
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