| Main Title: |
Ayers Rock : its people, their beliefs and their art / [by] Charles P. Mountford. |
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| Author: |
Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976
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| Imprint: |
Adelaide, SA : Rigby, 1977. |
| Collation: |
18cm. xii,196p. : ill., diagrs., maps, hbk, ; |
| Summary: |
Amended edition; omission of chapters on rock engraving and sacred objects from 1st edition (1965); brief survey of territorial grouping, kinship, material culture, and economic life of Pitjandjara; details of mythological associations of Ayers Rock (Uluru) and Mt Olga (Katatjuta); creation beliefs; myths concerning; animals, birds, dingo /dog, eagle, emu, lizards, material culture, plants, snakes, wallaby; see first edition for original annotation. |
| Subject: |
Pitjantjatjara (First Nations Australian people)
First Nations Australians
Uluru / Ayers Rock (NT)
Northern Territory - Southern District
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| Series: |
Seal books
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| ISBN: |
0727002155 : |
| Notes: |
First published, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965. Index.
This work contains text and/or images that may cause offence to members of the Australian Indigenous community, or may be deemed inappropriate for some users on the grounds of sex, age or social status by the Australian Indigenous community.
Bibliography: p.189-190.
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