Title Recollections of squatting in Victoria : then called the Port Phillip district, from 1841 to 1851

Edition Second edition Published Carlton : Melbourne University Press ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1965 Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1965

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MELB	994.5 CUR		AVAILABLE

Description xv, 193 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 22cm Summary Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang Notes Originally published: 1883 Bibliography "Other works by E.M. Curr": page 189 Subject Curr, Edward M. (Edward Micklethwaite) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria. Ethnology -- Australia. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria -- 19th century. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria. Land settlement -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography. Land settlement -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century. Land tenure -- Australia -- Victoria. Sheep -- Australia -- Victoria. Squatters -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography. SUBJECT Port Phillip region (Vic.) -- History -- 1841-1851 Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851 Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1900 Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1841-1851 Author Forster, Harley W. LC no. 65025721

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