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Life at Bathurst Island Mission
Walkabout • 5 (8) • Published In 1939 • Pages: 12-19
By: Barclay, Arthur.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is an account of an Australian journalist's visit to the Mission of the Sacred Heart station on Melville and Bathurst Islands. The major emphasis is on the activities of the missionaries with some reference to the reaction of the natives. Sketchy data are included on Tiwi dress, toilet, weapons, dances, 'wars', status of women and their concepts and treatment of illness. The description refers primarily to the 'Christianized', semi-acculturated Tiwi living on mission grounds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Missions
- External trade
- Gender status
- Slavery
- Normal garb
- Regulation of marriage
- Personal grooming
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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.
- Journalist
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938-1939
- 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
- Arthur Barclay
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51032418
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiwi (Australian people)