Ayers Rock : its people, their beliefs and their art / Charles P. Mountford
- Bib ID:
- 2785181
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Rigby, 1977
- xii, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0727002155
- Series:
- Seal books.
- Summary:
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Amended edition; omission of chapters on rock engraving and sacred objects from 1st edition (1965); brief survey of territorial grouping, kinship, material culture, and economic life of Pitjandjara; details of mythological associations of Ayers Rock (Uluru) and Mt Olga (Katatjuta); creation beliefs; myths concerning; animals, birds, dingo /dog, eagle, emu, lizards, material culture, plants, snakes, wallaby; see first edition for original annotation.
- Notes:
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- First published, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965.
- Includes index.
- Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain the names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within this work which reflect the author's attitude or that of the period in which the work was published and may now be considered offensive.
- Bibliography: p. 189-190.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians: Pitjantjatjara. Cultural processes. Northern Territory. Ayers Rock
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Ayers Rock
- Pitjantjatjara (Australian people)
- Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows
- Stories and motifs - Plants
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Technology
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Stories and motifs - Lizards / goannas
- Stories and motifs - Rock outcrops
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Religion - Dreaming - Creation / Cosmology
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs
- Uluru/Ayers Rock (N.T.)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2080 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2010
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1970
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