Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Preliminary report on social anthropological fieldwork in the Wyndham-East Kimberley shire, Kimberley Division, Western Australia, June-November 1968

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Preliminary report on social anthropological fieldwork in the Wyndham-East Kimberley shire, Kimberley Division, Western Australia, June-November 1968

Based on fieldwork April 1968-April 1969 in Australia; gives details of itinerary, informant; notes on visit to art sites at Camera Pool, Moochalabra Creek, Grotto Creek; field methods described (photos, films & tape recordings), lists ethnographic material collected, botanical & zoological specimens, analyses of plant foods (gives results, native names for 4 specimens); Appendix Notes on the sacred/secret objects collected at Wyndham (Kurangara cult boards), notes on origin of boards, text of 4 songs with interpretation of words (no language name given)