Coasts of Cape York : travels around Australia's pearl-tipped peninsula /

Popular account of travels, including visits to missions; Cowal Creek, Bamaga, Thursday Island, Iron Range, Weipa, Aurukun, Mitchell River, Edward River; mention of rite connected with birth practiced in the Archer River area; boys camp - policy of maintaining traditional skills, especially food fin...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Rees, Coralie, 1908-
مؤلفون آخرون: Rees, Leslie, 1905-2000
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1960.
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الملخص:Popular account of travels, including visits to missions; Cowal Creek, Bamaga, Thursday Island, Iron Range, Weipa, Aurukun, Mitchell River, Edward River; mention of rite connected with birth practiced in the Archer River area; boys camp - policy of maintaining traditional skills, especially food finding; methods of hunting, fishing and cooking (Kokomunjun and Wikmunkan); brief history of white contacts.
وصف المادة:Maps on endpapers.
وصف مادي:xv, 238 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.