On some customs of the aborigines of the River Darling, New South Wales / by Frederic Bonney
- Bib ID:
- 2403248
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bonney, Frederic, 1842-1921
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. NK6388 copy
- Description:
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- London : Harrison and Sons, 1883
- 16 pages ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK6388.
- Summary:
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Bungyarlee (north Mt. Murchison) & Parkungi (River Darling, Wilcannia) speak Weyneubulckoo, as do Baroongee (lower Poroo river), Mullia-arpa (Yencanyah district), Wombungee (Fort Bourke district, Upper Darling), Bo-arlee (Barrier Ranges), Tungarlee; (Lower Darling); Epidemic depletes tribes (1850) General physical description; temporary camp made by pregnant woman, frequent infanticide, method; Care of children, cicatrization & ornaments; Initiation ceremony; tooth avulsion, bull-roarer, blood drinking ritual, smoking ceremony; Descent taken from mother; marital life; Methods of pointing the bone, medicine man - examples of the power of curing sickness by sucking - native remedies & treatment of illness, kindness to the sick; Funerary rites, method of questioning corpse, removal of piece of flesh, lamentation; distribution of dried flesh to relatives; Camp vacated after death; Mourning by women continues; Near relative avenges death.
- Notes:
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- "Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, November, 1883" -- p. 16.
- Decorated endpapers.
- Cover title.
- National Library of Australia's NK6388 copy bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1883/17).
- NK6388 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-91694525
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK6388.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 7187
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Darling River Region -- Social life and customs
- Religion - Rites - Bloodletting
- Barindji people (D12) (NSW SI54-04)
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Barindji language (D12) (NSW SI54-04)
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Wiljali people (D13) (NSW SH54-15)
- Wathawurrung / Wada wurrung / Wathaurong people (S29) (Vic SJ54-12)
- Body - Scarification
- Ngiyampaa / Wangaaybuwan / Wongaibon language (D18) (NSW SI55-02)
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Danggali language (D14) (SA SI54-06)
- Ceremonies - Smoking ceremonies
- Barundji language (NSW SH55-05)
- Bolali language (D11) (NSW SH54-16)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Malyangapa / Malyangaba language (L8) (NSW SH54-11)
- Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji language (D12) (NSW SI54-03)
- Danggali people (D14) (SA SI54-06)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Bolali people (D11) (NSW SH54-16)
- Wandjiwalgu people (D21) (NSW SH54-12)
- Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people (D12) (NSW SI54-03)
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Wangaaybuwan / Wongaibon people (D18) (NSW SI55-02)
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Nawalgu language (D19) (NSW SH55-13)
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Death - Mourning
- Social organisation - Kinship - Matrilineal systems
- Barundji people (NSW SH55-05)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Bullroarers
- Wandjiwalgu language (D21) (NSW SH54-12)
- Nawalgu people (D19) (NSW SH55-13)
- Malyangapa / Malyangaba people (L8) (NSW SH54-11)
- Reproduction - Pregnancy
- Wathawurrung / Wada wurrung / Wathaurong language (S29) (Vic SJ54-12)
- Wiljali language (D13) (NSW SH54-15)
- Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Murdi Paaki / Bourke (N NSW SH55-10)
- Mount Murchison (NW NSW SH54-16)
- Wilcannia (NW NSW SH54-16)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1921
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1883
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