Early explorers in Australia
1925
Lee, Ida
P. 270-271 Description of the uncovering of a burial mound in the Piper's Hill region Cargelligo map area; plate of drawing of the burial mound; p. 282-283; John Oxley invites a group of Aboriginal people to the explorers' campsite; where they cook the animals they have caught; Oxleys exchanges an iron hatchet for green jade hatchet; handkerchief and knife given as gifts; description of nose piercing; front teeth retained; decorative raised scars; p. 285: meeting with nine Aboriginal men; donation of kangaroo by explorers; sharing of flour and pork; donation of iron pieces from casks; watching of corroboree; p. 336-337 : Meeting with Aboriginal man from Dampier archipelago : Front teeth present; body tattoos; pointed stick in hair; gifts given; p. 338 description of cylindrical floating vessel; p. 340 : glass beads ; iron nailsgiven to Aborigines; use of fish oil and powdered charcoal on skin; p. 353 capture of Maccassan canoe at Goulburn islands; explorers are attacked with stones and wood; p. 386 exchange of iron tomahawk at St Asaph Bay, Melville Island; ochre painted faces; p. 460-61 Rock art discovered in caves on Clack's Island; fire places and turtle heads found in cave; figures drawn with burnt stick found on Chasm Island in Gulf of Carpentaria; p. 463-464 spear attack on Cunningham's party at Hanover Bay, after exchange of gifts; Cunningham wounded; Aboriginal catamarans, implements and spears taken in revenge; p. 519-525 Bungaree and Matthew Flinders meet Moreton Bay tribe; fishing nets found in a cave; semicircular weirs; net exchanged for hatchet by Flinders; Bungaree makes spears for tribe at Pumice Stone River; songs sung to explorers; p. 529 Oxley in the "Mermaid" meet and rescues Thomas Pamphlet; distributes presents to Aboriginal people; account of Pamphlet's time with Aborigines; Aborigines fishing for Pamphlet and two companions; p. 535 castaway Parsons encounters with Aboriginal tribes between Moreton Bay and Hervey Bay; p. 611 Aborigines light fire near Cunningham's party's tents at Laidley Plains.
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