WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS
Account of journeys with David Mowaljarlai to significant sites in the west Kimberley; includes associated mythology and religious knowledge – Wandjina, snake, celestial bodies, sun, weather, lightning, flood, clouds , insects, birds, kangaroo, sickness, culture heroes; stone arrangements; food preparation – kangaroo; mother -in-law relations; foundation of the law; creation beliefs and cosmology; origin of spirit children and conception; magical and healing powers of the banman (doctor/clever man) – cure of leprosy; after death beliefs and mortuary ritual; incorporation of christianity; autobiography of David Mowaljarlai – life on Kunmunya mission, recollections of J.R.B. Love, World War II; forms of dreams – Mowaljarlais visions – corpus Australis; world view; Appendix 1 – Features of a Wandjina; Appendix 2 – Waanangga, sugarbag; Appendix 3 – time periods – chronology; Appendix 4 – The body of Australia, corpus Australis; glossary of Aboriginal language.
First Edition. #250523/020624
- Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Antiquities
- Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Religion
- Astronomy — Western Australia — Kimberley
- Rock paintings — Western Australia — Kimberley
- Aboriginal Australians — Religion
- Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Stories and motifs – Sun
- Food – Insects
- Stories and motifs – Clouds
- Bardi language (K15) (WA SE 51-02)
- Sites – Stone arrangements
- Family – Mothers in law
- Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Gathering – Honey
- Defence – World War II
- Psychology – Dreams and symbolism
- Art – Subjects – Wandjina
- Religion – After death beliefs
- Indigenous knowledge – World view
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
- Stories and motifs – Creation / Cosmology
- Stories and motifs – Kangaroos / Wallabies
- Stories and motifs – Cultural heroes
- Stories and motifs – Thunder and lightning
- Wunambal language (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Worrorra language (K17) (WA SD51-16)
- Bardi people (K15) (WA SE51-02)
- Stories and motifs – Fish
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin language (K18) (WA SE 52-01)
- Stories and motifs – Flood
- Magic and sorcery – Clever people
- Stories and motifs – Insects
- Stories and motifs – Birds
- Stories and motifs – Spirit children
- Sites – Dreaming tracks
- Stories and motifs – Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Reproduction – Conception
- Stories and motifs – Water sources
- Health – Treatments – Traditional – Clever people
- Stories and motifs – Snakes
- Religions – Christianity
- Health – Infectious diseases – Leprosy
- Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine
- Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
- Kimberley (W.A.) — Antiquities
- Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
- Bandilngan / Windjana Gorge (WA West Kimberley SE51-08)
- East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)