Life and Adventures of William Buckley, The: Thirty-two Years a Wanderer Amongst the Aborigines of the then unexplored country around Round Port Phillip, now the Province of Victoria

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL EXPLORATION BIOGRAPHY

Thirty-two years amongst Aborigines around Port Phillip; notes on general life of natives, corroborees, fighting, bodies burnt; elopement & consequences; kangaroo hunt; fishing; disposal of dead; destruction of children; origin of fire; cannibalism; superstitions; disputes between settlers and natives.

• xxiii, 116 p : illus., ports ; 23 cm. #181224
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Gender relations – Elopement
  • Environment – Land management – Fire
  • Hunting – Kangaroo / Wallaby
  • Stories and motifs – Fire
  • Hunting
  • Reproduction
  • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850
  • Fishing
  • Cannibalism
  • Dance – Ceremonial
  • Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
  • Boonwurrung / Boonerwrung / Bunurong people (S35) (Vic SJ55-09)
  • Woiwurrung / Wurundjeri / Woiwurung people (S36) (Vic SJ55-05)
  • Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)

  Subject:

  • Buckley, William, 1780-1856
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Victoria — History
  • Edited with an introduction and notes by C. E. Sayers. With sketches by John Helder Wedge