An Australian Parsonage, Or the Settler and the Savage in Western Australia (Classic Reprint)


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An Australian Parsonage


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p.72-88; Barladong (60 miles E. of Perth) - visits to personage by natives, physical appearance, clothes, shelters built by women, camp arrangements; solitary fires lit to keep ghosts warm at grave; general beliefs; Revenge killings for all deaths; Description of graves; Use of Wilghee for body decoration; p.99; Foods; p.128; Brief notes Wesleyan Mission school at Barladong; Aboriginal school established by Mrs. Camfield, Albany; native prison, Rottnest Is.; p.142-143; Burial; p.221-3; Kylies, birds eaten; p.228; Punishment for hunting in foreign tribal territory; p.257; Measles epidemic, 1860, King Georges Sound; p.273-299; Account of New Norcia Mission (taken from Salvado, Memorie Storiche dell Australia...); p.365; Glass spears; scarification; p.367-72; Fight over woman; wife inheritance; polygamy; p.414; Brief note on Aboriginal school at Perth.







This Errant Lady


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Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.




A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time


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James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.




Austral English


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The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.




Valuing Art, Respecting Culture


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This publication sets out protocols to guide non-indigenous people in their relationships with indigenous artists and communities, and to assist indigenous artists in defining their rights.