Western Port Bay tribes killed by sealers before pastoral settlement; origin theories, legends of Lun, bunyip and too-roo-dun; inter-tribal etiquette; tribes and sub tribes, common dialect; Buckley states Bunurong tribe attacked by Woiwurong and sealers 1840; Kulin - body decoration, clothing, tooth avulsion; moieties, marriage; male children of chief received special treatment at birth; settlement of disputes, hostilities, cannibalism; notes on tribal war 1838; cruelty in obtaining kidney fat; Aborigines - settlers relationships; cooking possum; middens at Red Bluff; ovens found Tooradin; catching eels; diorite quarry - Mount William (Wurundjeri) used for trading; camps, native wells; burial, legend and associated sites of Bunjil; initiation, place of medicine man in tribe; increase rites; tracking; 6 words with translation; notes on Tasmanian women and sealers; pages36-37; Medical treatment; Truganini wounded in capture of natives from Flinders Island; pages67; Effect of contact - drunkenness, assault
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