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Culture in Translation - Whole Book (8.8 MB)

• Preliminary Pages
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Note on Text
• Names of Aboriginal Groups and Languages
• Maps
• Abbreviations
• Introducing R. H. Mathews
  • ‘Birrarak is the name given to me by the natives’
• Part 1: Rock Art and Daily Life
• Introduction
• Contributions to the Ethnography of the Australians
• Rock Carvings and Paintings by the Australian Aborigines
• Plan of some Drawings carved or painted on Rock by the Natives of New South Wales, Australia
• Part 2: Kinship and Marriage
• Introduction
• Social Organisation of Some Australian Tribes
• Remarks on the Natives of Australia
• The Natives of Australia
• Part 3: Mythology
• Introduction
• Some Mythology of the Gundungurra Tribe, New South Wales
• A Giant in a Cave—An Australian Legend
• Australian Folk-Tales
• The Wareengarry and Karambal
• The Hereafter
• Part 4: Language
• Introduction
• The Wailwan Language
• Language of the Kurnu Tribe, New South Wales
• Part 5: Ceremony
• Introduction
• The Mŭltyerra Initiation Ceremony
• Initiation Ceremony of the Birdhawal Tribe
• The Bundandaba Ceremony of Initiation in Queensland
• Part 6: Correspondence
• Introduction
• Letters to E. S. Hartland
• Letters to R. H. Mathews
• Letter to Moritz von Leonhardi
• RHM Bibliography