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Notes on the natives of Bathurst Island, North Australia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland • 43 • Published In 1913 • Pages: 291-321 , plates
By: Basedow, Herbert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of these ethnographic notes, the Commonwealth Government's chief medical inspector of the area, recorded his observations during a nine-day tour to Bathurst and part of Melville Island. The data presented give attention to the physical appearance of the people, their methods, designs and techniques of body painting and tattooing, house types, clothing and personal decoration, household utensils, weapons, foods, canoes and canoe building, decorative art, ceremonies and burial practices. Special emphasis is placed in this latter category on the 'memorial' poles used to mark the graves, both as to their construction and decoration.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Eating
- Diet
- Shipbuilding
- Boats
- Dance
- Personal grooming
- Body alterations
- Puberty and initiation
- Comparative evidence
- Fire
- Sleeping
- Ethnobotany
- Burial practices and funerals
- Weapons
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tiwi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1820-1913
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Herbert Basedow
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82052056
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiwi (Australian people)