The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina

Résumé du livre

Brief notes on leadership; diseases and ways of healing; kinds of food; marital and sexual relationships; the use of women; cannibalism; cooking places; burial and mourning ceremonies; recreational activities; the making and uses of weapons and canoes; the uses and kinds of fibres; ways of catching fish and ducks; religious concepts and magic; construction of huts; crime and justice; value of native dogs; concepts of geography and astronomy; division of the year; concept of numbers; songs and corroberies; firemaking; tattooing; making of opossum cloaks; native mills; legends of courtenie (native companion) and kurwie (emu) and of the ogre Ngarou; magicians (Bangals); messengers (Ngallow Wattows); general linguistics information; vocabulary; Watty Watty and Litchoo Litchoo tribes; Published posthumously.