An edition of Material culture of the North Wellesley Islands
(2010)
Material culture of the North Wellesley Islands
by Paul Memmott
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Lardil (Australian people), Material culture, Social life and customs, Habitation - Camps, Housing - Shelters - Bark, Language - Vocabulary - Animal names, Fishing, Food - Preparation - Cooking, Environment - Land management - Fire, Weapons, Costume and clothing, Dance, Ceremonies - Initiation, Body - Decoration, Death - Mortuary customs, Material culture - String and rope making, Technology - Wood, Hunting - Dugong, Lardil people (G38) (Qld SE54-01), Lardil language (G38) (Qld SE54-01)| Edition | Availability |
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Material culture of the North Wellesley Islands
2010, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland
in English
1864999624 9781864999624
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The climate and land systems of the North Wellesley Islands
Social and territorial organisation
Ethnographic data sources
Subsistence activities: marine habitats, tidal flats and mudflats, sand-based land systems, interior land systems, freshwater sources
Settlement and shelter: cold weather camps, wet weather camps, mosquito camps, shade structures, shelter forms used during transitional seasonal conditions, the role of shelters as artefacts
Manufacture and use of fire
Food preparation: cooking methods, type of cooking methods, types of cooking ovens
Travel, transport and communication: carrying vessels, watercraft, message sticks and emblems
Fighting and duelling: fighting weapons
Public dancing: dance apparel, the public dance event, special dance props and installations
Square-up rituals: gift square-up, mortuary square-up, initiation square-up
Initiation ceremonies
Increase rituals and story places
Love magic
Sorcery and power objects
Curing sickness
Death and mortuary practices
Clothing, ornamentation and body decoration
Toys, games and training
Curation of artefacts and resources
Attitude to personal possession of artefacts
Manufacturing technologies: strings and net technology; bark technology; stone technology; timber technology
Trade with mainland groups
Cultural change during mission times (1914-1978), change in the technology of dugong hunting
Conclusion
Appendices: 1. Aboriginal artefacts commonly used by Lardil people, 1900; 2. Plant species collected on Mornington and Sydney Islands, 1976; 3. Some Mornington Island reptiles; 4. Local names of some fish and birds at Mornington Island (in Aboriginal English and Lardil); 5. Local names of some birds at Mornington Island; 6. Some land fauna of Mornington Island; 7. Some Mornington Island fauna from freshwater and marine habitats; 8. Some shell species from Mornington Island.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-99) and index.
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