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Looks at the culture and history of the some of the NSW Aboriginal people.
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maps, colour photographs, b&w photographs
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Looks at the culture and history of the some of the NSW Aboriginal people.
maps, colour photographs, b&w photographs
This book is the second of Gardner's 3 volume history on the Kurnai tribes. It studies the Kurnai through the diaries and letters of various European observers, including an explorer, squatters, government officials, Aboriginal protectors, missionaries and an anthropologist. There is also an account of one of the victims, a summary of Gardner's massacre thesis and an appendix on the 'white woman' affair. This book is considered the most professional production of the trilogy and was highly commended in the Caltex-Bendigo Advertiser Awards of 1988.
B&w illustrations, b&w photographs
histories, victorian aborigines, victorian history, local history, victoria, gippsland, kurnai, european
stories, short stories, histories, culture, literature, fiction, australia, australian literature, aboriginal literature, aboriginal stories
It had never happened before! No one had every taken legal action against the University of Melbourne and the Museum of Victoria, challenging their right to keep collections of the skeletal remains of the ancestor of Aboriginal people ... . For the 25th anniversary of the reburial in Kings Doman Garden, Shannon Faulkhead and Jim Berg tell the story of this significant battle in the history of colonisation of this country. The story incorporates the voices of 22 people, both Koorie and non-Koorie, who were involved at the time- Gatefold.
B&w illustrations, b&w photographs
museum of victoria, koori, koorie, , ancestors, history, histories, melbourne university, laws, melboune, victoria, art, artists
The most comprehensive one-volume book of identification
Colour illustrations, b&w illustrations, word lists, maps
birds, australia, identification
Curator: Esmai Manahan. Third exhibition in a series titled "Tribal expressions", held in Melbourne, 2004. Includes bibliographical references.
colour photographs, b&w photographs, maps
art, arts, victoria, koori, koorie, gallery, exhibition, arts victoria, melbourne, artists
From far-flung sites in Australia and the Pacific Islands, Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt produced the landmark study, 'Kamilaroi and Kurnai' (1880). Their book revealed the complexity of Aboriginal and Pacific Island societies and changed the course of anthropology in the early years of the discipline. Using archival sources and an innovative approach, Southern Anthropology explores the research, writing and reception of 'Kamilaroi and Kurnai'. Historical chapters track Fison and Howitt's collection and analysis of anthropological material in the context of raging debates about the evolution of humans. This narrative is interspersed with an introduction to the kinship and social organisation of Aboriginal and Pacific Island people that highlight the enduring value of Fison and Howitt's methods and the resurgence of their questions in contemporary anthropology. Southern Anthropology is designed to be read across disciplinary boundaries.
b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, tables, document reproductions
histories, anthropology, howitt, fisson, kamilaroi, kurnai, evolution, archives, australia
Vol 3 Anthology of Sources
b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, colour illustrations
djabwurrung, djab wurrung, western victoria, victoria, port phillip aboriginal protectorate, biographies, genealogies, pastoral stations, social histories, place names, siewright, lake condah, balllarat, thomas jerusalem, king billy, mount emu, histories
Vol 1 A History of the Djabwurrung, 1836-1901
maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, colour illustrations
djabwurrung, djab wurrung, western victoria, victoria, port phillip aboriginal protectorate, biographies, genealogies, pastoral stations, social histories, place names, siewright, lake condah, balllarat, thomas jerusalem, king billy, mount emu, histories
Victorian Collections acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.