Spinifex Walkabout: Hitch-Hiking In Remote North Australia

Rees, Coralie, 1908-1972 ; Rees, Leslie, 1905-2000
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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.)

Additional Information

AuthorRees, Coralie, 1908-1972 ; Rees, Leslie, 1905-2000
Number of pages285 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
PublisherAustralasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney / George C Harrap
Year Published1954 reprint
Binding Type

Hardcover. Original cloth

Book Condition

Good

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