Nyungar--the People: Aboriginal Customs in the Southwest of AustraliaNeville Green Aboriginal life and customs at the time of contact as described by contemporary European inhabitants; includes biographical information on the authors. |
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
Dr Alexander Collie | 56 |
George Fletcher Moore | 97 |
Copyright | |
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Aborigines Alexander Collie animals appear bandicoots Banksia bark bird body Botup brother bush called Captain Carnac Island cloak coast Collie colour dance death deceased Derbal district eaten Erniung European father female fire flowers Francis Armstrong Fremantle frequently frog George Fletcher Moore grass grass-tree grave ground hair hand harbour head hole hunting husband huts Island kangaroo skin Ken Colbung killed King George's Sound language letter Lyon Meananger Melville water Midgegooroo miles Mokkare Moolya Moore Mooro Mount Eliza Nakina natives night Nind Nind's Nyungar opossum ornament party person Perth Gazette piece procure returned roots savages season seems Settlement settlers shewed shoulders small species sometimes spear species of fish Swan River Colony throwing stick tion tree tribal group tribe vegetables visited vocabulary Western Australia women worn wound Xanthorea Yagan young