Coasts of Cape York : travels around Australia's pearl-tipped peninsula /
Popular account of travels, including visits to missions; Cowal Creek, Bamaga, Thursday Island, Iron Range, Weipa, Aurukun, Mitchell River, Edward River; mention of rite connected with birth practiced in the Archer River area; boys camp - policy of maintaining traditional skills, especially food fin...
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| Format: | Bog |
| Sprog: | English |
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Sydney :
Angus & Robertson,
1960.
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| Summary: | Popular account of travels, including visits to missions; Cowal Creek, Bamaga, Thursday Island, Iron Range, Weipa, Aurukun, Mitchell River, Edward River; mention of rite connected with birth practiced in the Archer River area; boys camp - policy of maintaining traditional skills, especially food finding; methods of hunting, fishing and cooking (Kokomunjun and Wikmunkan); brief history of white contacts. |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | xv, 238 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |