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Mutton fish : the surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the South Coast of New South Wales / Beryl Cruse, Liddy Stewart and Sue Norman.

Title
Mutton fish : the surviving culture of Aboriginal people and abalone on the South Coast of New South Wales / Beryl Cruse, Liddy Stewart and Sue Norman.
Author
Cruse, Beryl
Publication
[Canberra] : Aboriginal Studies Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Stewart, Liddy, 1941-
  • Norman, Sue, 1953-
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Description
viii-xiii, 118 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
Abalone is a subsistance food, easy to find and harvest. The coastal environment of NSW has nurtured the aboriginal people for thousands of years. This book explores the relationship and the effects of the coastal resources being progressively restricted by European competition.
Subject
  • Abalones > Australia > South Coast (N.S.W.)
  • Abalone culture > Australia > South Coast (N.S.W.)
  • Aboriginal Australians > Food > Australia > South Coast (N.S.W.)
  • Aboriginal Australians > Australia > South Coast (N.S.W.) > History
  • South Coast (N.S.W.) > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Walkun -- A Day on the Beach -- What the Middens Tell Us -- Mutton Fish -- Early Contact -- Land -- Livelihood -- Life on the Beaches -- Abalone -- Put in for a Licence -- Bag Limits -- Court Cases -- The Future
ISBN
0855754826
OCLC
  • 60571116
  • SCSB-12181917
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library