Description |
141 pages : illustrations (some coloured), map, portraits (some coloured) ; 29 cm |
Contents |
Polynesia -- Micronesia -- Melanesia -- Australia |
Summary |
p.110-137; Myths and details of illustrations image of the spirit of the long grass, Morkulkualuan (Katherine), Djanggawul, Kunapipi (commenting on womens part in ceremony), the snake (Wollonga (Warramunga); Ayers Rock (Pitjantatjara); Wadi Gudjara (Western Desert), the Hard Yam woman & the Arrowroot man (Wikmunkan); Sivri the seagull (Mabuiag & Cape York); sky heroes of the south-east (Wotjobaluk); other myths - How Gidja the moon made a woman (Bloomfield R.); the whale and the starfish (Lake Illawarra); the Muramura (Dieri); the allpowerful fathers of the Aranda; the Mamandabari of the Walbiri; the Wondjina (Kimberley); the Lightning Brothers (Wardaman); Kunmanggur & Tjinimin the bat (Murinbata); the Great mother, the Rainbow Snake, the Wawalag Sisters, Jurawadbad the snake man, why men die, moon bone cycle (Arnhem Land); Extensively illustrated |
Analysis |
Australian |
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Oceania - Religion |
Notes |
Includes index and bibliography |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 138) and index |
Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
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Copy 3 - donation from ATSIC Library |
Subject |
Art -- Oceania.
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Art, Melanesian.
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Art, Micronesian.
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Art, Polynesian.
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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Mythology, Melanesian.
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Mythology, Micronesian.
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Mythology, Oceanian.
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Mythology, Pacific Island.
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Mythology, Polynesian.
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Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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LC no. |
68076167 |
ISBN |
0600023729 (hardback) |
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9780600023722 (hardback) |
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