×
How to Search:
To begin a search, type your search into the search box, eg : John Gould birds Australia.

Search for a phrase by putting your query in double quotes, eg : "museum studies".

Use * at the end of a word to find variant word endings, eg : Ecolog* finds ecology, ecologies, ecological.

Use * in place of a character to find alternative spellings, e.g : speciali*e finds specialise and specialize.

Refine your searches at the results page by using the filters in the left hand menu.

For assistance using Advanced Search, click the Help button on the Advanced Search page.

Full Record

Aboriginal stone arrangements in Australia.
McCarthy, Frederick D. (Frederick David), 1905-1997.
Journal Article
J508.94/AUS/REF:AUSMUS;MAIN
1939-1941
The Australian Museum magazine.: 1939-1941, 7
Aboriginal Australians - Material culture. ; Aboriginal Australians - Rites and ceremonies.
184-189
https://library.australian.museum//fullRecord.jsp?recno=33280
Article on the types of stone arrangements constructed by aborigines and their functions and meaning. Covers fish-traps, stone cairns, stone lines, stone markers and other stone arrangements. Includes photographs (stone fish-trap across the Barwon River
at Brewarrina; stone lines at a Kantyu tribal totem centre for kangaroos, Emily Creek, Cape York; cairn of stones, Mount Foster, New South Wales; stone arrangement representing yams at a totem centre of the Ungarinyin tribe, Western Australia; three upright stones marking the place where the Bookbook Owl caused the sea to recede, Worora tribe, Western Australia).
more...
Aboriginal stone arrangements in Australia.

Contact Library for Availability
Back to Results

Similar items

Back to top
You have reached the end of the page. Thank you for reading.