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'Alonga Bush': a Tiwi hunt
University Museum Bulletin • 21 (3) • Published In 1957 • Pages: 2-35
By: Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a popularized account of the author's experiences and observations recorded during the hunting expedition of a Tiwi band in which she was allowed to participate. These observations are interspersed from time to time with bits of ethnographic data pertaining primarily to routine of travel, hunting and fowling techniques, food preparation, gathering activities, and perhaps most important of all, the high degree of acculturation effects, coupled with aboriginal techniques which seem to exist in the society without apparent conflict. The author, a professional anthropologist, lived on Melville Island for a period of eight months, and was sponsored in her work by the National Geographic Society and the University Museum.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Fowling
- Marine hunting
- Food preparation
- External relations
- Settlement patterns
- Boats
- Travel
- Fire
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1957
- 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
- Jane C. Goodale
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 32011312
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiwi (Australian people)