Aboriginal Fisheries of the Darling-Barwon Rivers

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL FISHERIES

• vi, 74 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm. ISBN printed in book is 094969620X  SCARCE (Note different cover.)

• History of the Aborigines of the Darling-Barwon Rivers region of NSW and in particular of the fishing industry; based on Aboriginal mythology, scientific records; early ethnographic and current accounts.

• “This book will give readers pause for thought – the many concrete details on the making of implements and clothing, the conservation programmes, the appreciation of ecological balance, the construction of fish weirs, the diversity of styles of canoe conceptualised and created argue most convincingly and compellingly the competence of Aboriginal man in his own environment.”
• Peter Dargin describes in detail the onetime Aboriginal fisheries in Brewarrina, northern New South Wales, which was a major historic Aboriginal enterprise of the area. He describes the history of the local Aboriginal people and their customs which provides context to the remarkable extensive fishing traps and nets in the local rivers. For several reasons, the fisheries gradually declined with increasing white settlement
• Aboriginal Australians. Fishing. New South Wales. Barwon River & Darling River
• Aboriginal Australians — New South Wales — Fishing
• Fisheries — Barwon River (Qld. and N.S.W.)
• Fisheries — New South Wales — Darling River
• Technology
• Costume and clothing
• Ngiyampaa / Ngemba people (D22) (NSW SH55-10)
• Fishing
• Weapons
• Fishing – Fish traps
• Art – Rock art
• Stories and motifs
• Housing – Shelters
• Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
• Barwon River (N NSW SH55)
• Cuddie Springs (N NSW SH55-11)
• Northern New South Wales (N NSW SH55, SH56)
• Brewarrina (N NSW SH55-06)
• Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
• Australian