Wollumbin, the creation and early habitation of the Tweed and Richmond Rivers of N.S.W., by N.C. Keats
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Wollumbin, the creation and early habitation of the Tweed and Richmond Rivers of N.S.W., by N.C. Keats
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
Main title
Wollumbin
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by N.C. Keats
Sub title
the creation and early habitation of the Tweed and Richmond Rivers of N.S.W.
Summary
Early habitation of the Richmond River and Tweed Valley River system; Chapter 2 - Bundjalung dialects and their regions; Nganduwal, Galibal, Birihn/Birihnbal, Bandjalang, Wiyabal, Nyangbal, Minyanbal; dietary patterns; food gathering; family care; hunting; sacred sites; Bora rings; dwellings; marriages; corroborees; violent conflict; massacres; initial contactAppendices: 'A' Regional forests and vegetation - Trees, and their local habitats. 'B' Birds, mammals and cold blooded original species of the regions in some detail. 'C' Most accountable ships and cedar cargoes form the Tweed River to Sydney - 1845-1870. 'D' Mail Routes, Contracts and Contractors of the Richmond-Tweed areas 1856-1870Includes: exporation of the area by Oxley and others; Tweed River cedar trade; and family histories including those named Boyd, Grat, Harper, Smith and Stott to name a few
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