Commandant of solitude : the journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831 / John Mulvaney and Neville Green
- Bib ID:
- 562447
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barker, Collet, 1784-1831
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992
- xviii, 431 p., [18] p. of plates (some col.) : ill, maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522844723
- Series:
- Miegunyah Press series ; no. 8.
- Summary:
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Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations , traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Barker, Collet, 1784-1831 -- Diaries
- Great Britain. Army. Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot -- History
- Great Britain. Army -- Colonial forces -- Australia -- Biography
- Great Britain. Army -- Officers -- Diaries
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Raffles Bay Region -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- King George Sound Region -- History
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Avoidance
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Minang language (W2) (WA SI50-11)
- Social organisation - Relationships - Joking
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Body - Scarification
- Fishing
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Minang people (W2) (WA SI50-11)
- Weapons - Spears
- Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah languages (W41) (WA SI50)
- Technology - Wood - Fire sticks
- Race relations - Violent
- Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Feuds and warfare
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Ceremonies - Women
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Language - Vocabulary - Food, cooking and fire
- Race relations - Betterment societies, etc
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Trade and exchange
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Hunting
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Deceased persons
- Raffles Bay (N.T.) -- Biography
- King George Sound (W.A.) -- Biography
- Raffles Bay / Fort Wellington (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Albany / King George Sound (SW WA SI50-11, SI50-15)
- Western Australia (WA)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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