Groote Eylandt Mission : a short history of the C.M.S. Groote Eylandt Mission, 1921-1971 / by Keith Cole
- Bib ID:
- 488388
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cole, Keith, 1919-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Church Missionary Historical Publications, 1971
- 87 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 19 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0909821003
- Summary:
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Frontispiece has description and meaning of bark painting on dustcover; mainly historical information on mission p.1-10; Location of Groote Eylandt, topography, climate, size, population (1921 & 1970), origins & relations with Nunggubuyu people, economic life, food gathering, fishing, Macassan influences, plant foods, camps, bark wet weather huts with painted interiors, moieties, clans, ideas of property & ownership, family cohesion, totemism (gives myth of Central Hill, arrival of Macassan trepangers, material objects introduced); individual accounts of history of Umbakumba, Angurugu & Emerald River.
- Notes:
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- "Companion volume to Groote Eylandt Pioneer, by Keith Cole, Melbourne, 1971." -- T.p. verso.
- Bibliography: p. 85-87.
- Subject:
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- Groote Eylandt Mission
- Church Missionary Society of Australia
- Missions -- Northern Territory -- Groote Eylandt
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Plants
- Habitation - Camps
- Family
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons - Wet season
- Housing - Shelters
- Daily life
- Demography
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Religion - Totemism
- Anindilyakwa / Enindhilyagwa / Warnindilyakwa people (N151) (NT SD53-12)
- Fishing
- Art - Subjects - Contact
- Stories and motifs
- Gathering
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Nunggubuyu people (N128) (NT SD53-11)
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Beche-de-mer / Trepang
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Angurugu (Groote Eylandt NT Gulf Islands SD53-07)
- Umbakumba (Groote Eylandt NT Gulf Islands SD53-08)
- Emerald River (Groote Eylandt NT Gulf Islands SD53-11)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2089 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2019
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1971
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