ABORIGINAL WEST AUSTRALIANA

• vi, 185 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm. #141224

• Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their remarkable exodus from remote desert country to an unfamiliar modern society. Within only one generation the Walmajarri desert dwellers left their traditional places behind to face station life and a world far beyond the sandhills. These accounts of a recent past reveal the challenges of the epic journey north to station country, the courage of the Walmajarri in confronting the unknown, and their first contact with white people.

  Stories in English and Walmajarri.

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Stories and motifs
  • Daily life
  • Economic sectors – Agriculture and horticulture – Pastoral industry
  • Hunting, gathering and fishing
  • Walmajarri / Walmatjarri people (A66) (WA SE51-16)
  • Walmajarri language A66
  • Djugerari / Jukurirri / Cherrabun (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)
  • Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)
  • Wangkatjungka / Christmas Creek (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)

  Subject:

  • Walmajarri (Australian people) — Western Australia — Kimberley
  • Walmajarri (Australian people) — Social life and customs
  • Great Sandy Desert (W.A.)
  • Bibliography: p. 185.
  • ex-library copy with usual marks, tight and complete