The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina / as seen by Peter Beveridge
- Bib ID:
- 4401794
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beveridge, Peter, 1825-1885
- Description:
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- Donvale, Vic. : Lowden Publishing, 2008 [i.e. 1889]
- xxxiv, 221 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781920753085
- Series:
- Aboriginal studies series no. 2.
- Summary:
-
The Beveridges pioneered the Swan hill area on the Murray River, lived among the Aboriginals; learned the Aboriginal dialects, lore and customs. Peter Beveridge faithfully recorded these and his book was published posthumously by his family.
- Notes:
-
- Originally published: Melbourne: M.L. Hutchison, 1889.
- "Text reproduced by Bronwyn Lowden. Biographies by Jim Lowden." - T.P. verso.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.)
- Technology - Containers - Coolamons
- Music - Vocal - Clan songs
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Fishing
- Costume and clothing - Cloaks and coats
- Wadi Wadi / Wathi Wathi people (D4) (Vic SI54-16)
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupials - Possums / Gliders / Cuscus
- Crime
- Hunting - Birds
- Wadi Wadi / Wathi Wathi language (D4) (Vic SI54-16)
- Magic and sorcery
- Sport
- Animals - Mammals - Dingoes / Dogs
- Fishing - Fish weirs
- Music - Instruments - Percussion - Drum
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Death - Mourning
- Indigenous knowledge - Astronomy
- Technology - Pigments and ochres
- Animals - Birds - Ducks / Geese
- Law - Indigenous
- Hunting - Traps, nets etc
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Cannibalism
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Communications - Messengers
- Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Technology - Fire - Fire making
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Sharing
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Art - Body art
- Ladji Ladji / Latje Latje language (S23) (Vic SI54-11)
- Religion
- Weapons - Spears
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Housing - Shelters - Grass
- Ladji Ladji / Latje Latje people (S23) (Vic SI54-11)
- Recreation - Games
- Body - Scarification
- Weapons - Throwing sticks
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Technology - Fibre - Nets
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Riverina (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Aborigines of Victoria & Riverina
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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