Kimberley History: People, Exploration and Development

WEST AUSTRALIANA  / ABORIGINAL

Proceedings on the March 2020 Kimberley History Seminar. The focus is on the Indigenous Australian and European history and exploration of the Kimberley Region.

Includes, amongst others, papers on Kimberley archaeology, maritime exploration, Joseph Bradshaw, the gold rush of 1885-1886. the expeditions of Alexander Forrest, Frank Hann and Frederick Brockman, and Christian missions.

• xi, 227 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm. #101123 First Edition
• Proceedings of the Kimberley Society, Kimberley History Seminar held at the University of Western Australia, 27 March 2010″.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Subject:
  • Settlement and contacts – Explorers
  • Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
  • Art – Subjects – Wandjina
  • Art – Rock art
  • Art – Subjects – Gwion Gwion figures
  • Demography – Palaeodemography – Aboriginal settlement of Australia
  • Religions – Christianity – Missions
  • Religions – Christianity – Catholic Church
  • History
  • Settlement and contacts – Macassans and Indonesians
  • Habitation
  • Kimberley (W.A.) — Discovery and exploration
  • Kimberley (W.A.) — History
  • Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
  • Kalumburu (WA Drysdale East Kimberley SD52-09)
  • Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
  • Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
  • Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
  • Forrest River (WA East Kimberley SD52-09, SD52-10, SD52-14)
  • Camden Sound (WA West Kimberley SD51-15)
  • Iwany / Sunday Island (WA West Kimberley SE51-03)
  • Marigui Promontory (WA West Kimberley SD51-16)
  • Australian

  Other authors/contributors:

  • Clement, Cathie
  • Gresham, Jeffrey John
  • McGlashan, Hamish
  • Kimberley Society