Iwaidja ethnobotany : Aboriginal plant knowledge from Gurig National Park, northern Australia / Nelson Muluriny Blake, Glenn Wightman and Lorraine Williams
- Bib ID:
- 408246
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Blake, Nelson Muluriny
- Description:
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- Darwin : Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory, 1997
- xv, 166 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0724529624
- Series:
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- Northern Territory botanical bulletin ; no. 23. 0314-1810
- Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management occasional paper ; no. 1.
- Summary:
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Ethnobotany of the Iwaidja language group of Cobourg Peninsula; description of the region - vegetation; Iwaidja seasons and seasonality; contact history; language distribution - orthography; territorial organisation - clan areas; kinship system; ethnobotanical knowledge; listing of 269 plants and their uses - subsistence, material culture and medicinal.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 159.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Ethnobotany
- Ethnobotany -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Plants
- Indigenous knowledge - Ecology
- Settlement and contacts
- Subsistence and economy - Seasonality
- Iwaidja / Yiwayja / Yiwadya language (N39) (NT SC53-13)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Food - Bush tucker
- Cobourg Peninsula / Gurig National Park (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Until 2047 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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