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Aboriginal group fishing
Title : Aboriginal group fishing Aboriginal group fishing
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Creator : Vincent, J E Matthew
Source : The Australian irrigation colonies on the River Murray in Victoria and South Australia / compiled etc. by J.E. Matthew Vincent
Place Of Creation : London
Publisher : Chaffey Brothers Limited
Date of creation : 1888
Format : Book
Dimensions : 396 x 285 x 13 mm
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Copyright :

This item is reproduced courtesy of the Riverland Aboriginal Cultural Association. It may be printed or saved for personal research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from the Riverland Aboriginal Cultural Association and the State Library of South Australia.

Description :

An Aboriginal group fishing on the River Murray near Chowilla Station: a woman on the river bank, a man holding a net, several onlookers perched on a fallen tree trunk over the water, one man standing with a spear, and three men in a bark canoe, one with spear raised.


Subjects
Coverage year : 1886
Region : Riverland and Murraylands
Further reading :

Bell, Diane. Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin : a world that is, was and will be, North Melbourne, Spinifex Press, 1998

Berndt, Ronald M. and Berndt, Catherine H. with Stanton, John E. A world that was: the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the lakes, South Australia, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993

Jenkin, Graham. Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, Point McLeay, Raukkan Publishers, 1995, 2nd ed

Kartinyeri, Doreen. Ngarrindjeri Nation: Genealogies of Ngarrindjeri Families, 2006

Taplin, George (ed). The Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian Aborigines, Bridgewater, 1989, edited by G. Taplin, first published 1879

Weir, Jessica. Murray River country : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009

Woolmer, George. Traditional Ngarinyeri people: Aboriginal people of the Murray Mouth Region, Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1986

Internet links :

ABC: George Negus Tonight - History: Indigenous river life Jenni Grace, Elder, Mid-Murray Region; Richard Hunter, Nganguraku Elder; Dr Philip A. Clarke, Head Of Anthropology, SA Museum. [07/06/2004]

Ngurunderi: an Aboriginal Dreaming [SA Museum]

Nukkan Kungun Yunnan - Ngarrindjeri's Being Heard

Stories of the Dreaming from Ngarrindjeri people of the lower River Murray area of South Australia: Thukeri Kevin Smith - narrator; Thukeri story explanation Veena Gollan - narrator


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