The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines
A sketch of their Habits, Customs, Legends and Language. Also an account of the efforts made by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith to Cristianise and Civilise them.
by Mrs. James Smith
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Booandik people, Booandik language, Buandik people, Buandik language, Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- South East Region, Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- South East Region -- Social life and customs, Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- South East Region -- Religion, Ethnology, Native racesPlaces
South Australia, Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, Beachport, Port MacDonnell, Mount Schanck, Mount Muirhead, Guichen BayTimes
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The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch Of Their Habits, Customs, Legends And Language
25 July 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch Of Their Habits, Customs, Legends And Language
1 June 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A sketch of their Habits, Customs, Legends and Language. Also an account of the efforts made by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith to Cristianise and Civilise them.
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part First.
Chapter I.
Habits and Customs—
Birth of Children
Death and Burial
Marriage
Treatment of Widows
Chapter II.
Traditions and Legends, Early Events—
First Ship at Rivoli Bay
First Cattle and Horses seen by natives
How Fire was Obtained
Last of the Giants
Origin of MacDonnell Bay
Origin of the Kangaroo
The First Blacks
Tennateona, or the Devil
Why the Emu has Short Wings
Wreck of the Maria
Chapter III.
Superstitions, Witchcraft, &c.—
Belief in Witchcraft
Dreaming of Women
Idea of the Hereafter
Pangals, or Medicine Men
Part Second.
Chapter I.
Capability for Civilisation and Evangelisation
Chapter II.
Memoirs—
Boonduin
Caboo, Wife and Children
Kotawar
Caroline and her Family
Conversion of Black Bobby
Emma, or Tenung
Lohwoola
Nathan
Patchuerimen
The Dying Woman
Utcoonin
Wergon
Yanbo-araming
Yara-nar-a-men
PART THIRD.
Language of the Tribe—
Structure of the Tongue
Vocabulary
Relationships
Songs
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Work Description
As the subtitle suggests, an account of a missionary's interactions with and observations of the local Aboriginal people in the South-East of South Australia. The largest part of the book is the ‘Memoirs’, accounts of the Smiths’ attempts to “Christianise and Civilise” but it also includes some information about moieties, customs and legends. There is also a vocabulary of the Booandik language at the end of the book.
A sad picture emerges of the decline of a rich culture in a single generation, glimpsed through the gaps in this narrative.
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