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Author Boyoi, Waddi, -1984

Title Bush time, station time : Waddi Boyoi and Johnny Walker reminiscences of eighty years as told to Bruce Shaw
Published Underdale, SA : Aboriginal Studies and Teacher Education Centre, University of South Australia, 1991

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 W'PONDS  305.89915 Walker Boy/Bts  AVAILABLE
Description 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary Autobiographical accounts by Waddi Boyoi and Johnny Walker; reminiscences of traditional and station life; hunting, death rituals, initiation, devil myths, marriage, sorcery and inter-tribal conflict; contact history - Captain Cook myth; station work; brief notes on effects of World War II; leprosy and blindness; perceptions of alcohol abuse, intermarriage, work and Aboriginal Law; includes poem Johnny Walker-oh by Mary Durak, chronological table and glossary of colloquialisms and Kriol words
Notes "An Aboriginal Studies Key Centre Publication" --t.p. verso
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 199-204
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Boyoi, Waddi, -1984
Boyoi, Waddi
Walker, Johnny, -1980
Walker, Johnny
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social conditions
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Shaw, Bruce, 1951-
Walker, Johnny, -1980
University of South Australia. Aboriginal Studies Key Centre
LC no. 10046624
ISBN 0868032220
9780868032221