Popular account; Lombadina – account of corroboree, role of songman, ceremonial object; Waninga, derived from Sunday Island; notes on police leper patrol in Kimberleys; Urapunga homestead (Roper River) – dances, songman, instruments, diffusion of mermaid dance from Central Australia; comments on conditions on missions at Beagle Bay, Croker and Goulburn Island, Roper River, Hermannsburg, Altunga, Haasts Bluff. |
285 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. #291021 (Segment cut from prelims.)