Commandant of solitude : the journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831
Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations, traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835
eBook, English, 1992
Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic., 1992