| Description |
1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Contents |
Endorsements -- Title page -- Imprint page -- copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- The tellers of the story -- the main accounts -- A note on the rendering of Aboriginal English -- Map: locations and area mentioned in the text -- Introduction -- Making of a Clever Man -- Acquiring the Power -- The sugarbag event -- Speaking with the yumbarrbarr -- The Power of the Marrkidjbu -- Kumula: Giving purpose for that job -- Healing -- defeating namorrorddo -- Healing himself -- Removing 'sickness objects' -- Healing -- Balanda accounts -- Sorcery |
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Manifestations of Power -- Water divining -- Namadbara and nature -- Clever knowledge -- The world of the dead -- Namadbara's reputation -- Kumula and the Wider Community -- Dreams and visions -- 'Marrkidjbu -- but stronger and something else' -- Making leaders for the community -- Controlling the power of Ngalyod, the Rainbow Serpent -- Passing on the Power -- Namadbara's 'power objects' -- 'He gave me this gift' -- 'This power, too hard' -- His Death -- and After -- Namadbara's post-death influence -- Namadbara's Legacy -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements |
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Paddy Compass Namadbara: A Putative Timeline -- Glossary -- Endnotes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Compass Namatbara, Paddy, 1890-1973
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Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Biography
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Wisdom.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Wisdom
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| SUBJECT |
Arnhem Land (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007377
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| Subject |
Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neidjie, Big Bill
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| ISBN |
1925302245 |
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9781925302240 |
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9781925302264 |
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1925302261 |
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