| Description |
168 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Author is Lardil man from Mornington Island; comments on conception beliefs, birth, food plants, camp life, Creation myth, myths on origin of death, Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpent, marriage rules, relations with Mission staff, hunting & fishing, stellar myths, dugong hunting, wild bee myth; initiation myth, describes initiation ceremony, subincision, secret Damin language; flood ceremony, 22 lines of rain stopping song (with free translation), story of Warrenby, sorcery and sorcerers, clay as medicine, love magic, moon legend, death & mourning, burial, inquest, spirit beliefs; relations with Bentinck Island (Kaiadilt) people, stories of early settlement of Sweers Island; work on cattle stations & as deckhand, encouragement to work on bark paintings; notes expeditions with P. Trezise to find rock paintings, Cooktown area; short glossary of Lardil words (c.19 terms) |
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Dick Roughsey was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Lardil language group on Mornington Island in the south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria Queensland. His tribal name was Goobalathaldin meaning 'the ocean dancing' describing a 'rough sea'. He was an active and prominent figure involved in reviving and preserving the cultural life of the Lardil people. His best known works are a series of children's picture books that retell traditional Aboriginal stories including "The Rainbow Serpent" |
| Analysis |
Australia - aborigines |
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Roughsey, Dick |
| Notes |
Maps as endpapers |
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Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Roughsey, Dick., 1924-1985
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Roughsey, Dick.
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Trezise, P. J. (Percy J.)
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| SUBJECT |
Daily life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00104254
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Initiation http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79001445 -- Subincision
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Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Employment -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Mornington Island
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Animals -- Invertebrates -- Insects -- Bees
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Art -- Bark painting
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Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists -- Biography
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Cooking -- Plants
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Death -- Inquests
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Death -- Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
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Death -- Mourning
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Etiquette -- Initiation
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Fishing.
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Food industry and trade -- Cooking -- Plants
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Biography -- Indigenous -- Autobiographies
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Hunting -- Dugong
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Hunting.
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Lardil (Australian people)
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Manners and customs -- Initiation
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Music -- Vocal
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Occupations -- Pastoral industry workers
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Painters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Reproduction -- Childbirth
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Reproduction -- Conception
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Rites and ceremonies -- Initiation
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Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
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Queensland. (Australian aborigines) |
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Queensland. (Oceanic Ancestry Group) |
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Australia. |
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Queensland. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
70889557 |
| ISBN |
0589006657 |
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