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Mrs. Fraser on the fatal shore
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ISBN: 0718108159 Year: 1971 Publisher: London, Michael Joseph,

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Biographical & historical information on the wreck of the Stirling Castle and the Fraser Massacre, notes camp life, plant foods, womens domestic tasks, food preparation, status of women, place names (Kabi) of south east Queensland; includes story of Wandi Bracefell; cannibalism; Appendix IV - Aboriginal methods of preparing dead bodies (taken from J.D. Lang); Appendix VI - The bunya bunya pine, use as food by Aborigines; includes facsimile title pages of contemporary accounts.


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Recollections of squatting in Victoria, then called the Port Phillip District (from 1841 to 1851)
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Year: 1965 Publisher: Melbourne : Melbourne University Press,

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Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang.

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