Research Catalog

Title

Commandant of solitude : the journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831 / John Mulvaney and Neville Green.

Author

Barker, Collet, 1784-1831.

Publication

Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mulvaney, D. J. (Derek John), 1925-2016.
• Green, Neville.

Description

xviii, 431 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations, traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.

Series Statement

Miegunyah Press series ; no. 8

Uniform Title

Miegunyah Press series ; no. 8.

Subject

• Barker, Collet, 1784-1831 > Diaries
• Barker, Collet, 1784-1831
• Great Britain. Army > Colonial forces > Australia > Diaries
• Great Britain. Army > Officers > Diaries
• Great Britain. Army
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > Social life and customs
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Western Australia > Social life and customs
• Minang language (W2) (WA SI50-11)
• Minang people (W2) (WA SI50-11)
• Noongar > Nyungar > Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
• Noongar > Nyungar > Nyungah languages (W41) (WA SI50)
• Weapons > Spears
• Race relations > Racism > Stereotyping
• Reproduction > Childbirth
• Social organisation > Avoidance rules > Deceased persons
• Body > Scarification
• Ceremonies > Initiation
• Ceremonies > Women
• Social organisation > Relationships > Joking
• Death > Mortuary > funeral ceremonies
• Environment > Climate and weather > Seasons
• Settlement and contacts > Colonisation > 1788-1850
• Stories and motifs > Creation > Cosmology
• Feuds and warfare
• Environment > Land management > Fire
• Fishing
• Food > Sociocultural aspects > Avoidance
• Hunting
• Social organisation > Kinship > Marriage
• Social organisation > Avoidance rules > Avoidance relationships
• Race relations > Betterment societies, etc
• Race relations > Violent
• Stories and motifs > Snakes
• Stories and motifs > Stars
• Technology > Wood > Fire sticks
• Trade and exchange
• Language > Vocabulary > Food, cooking and fire
• Language > Vocabulary > Place names
• History > Biographies > Non-Indigenous > Autobiographies
• Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
• Armed Forces > Officers
• Armed Forces > Colonial forces
• Race relations
• Iwi taketake
• Northern Territory > Race relations
• Western Australia > Race relations
• Raffles Bay > Fort Wellington (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
• Albany > King George Sound (SW WA SI50-11, SI50-15)
• Western Australia (Wash.)
• Australia
• Northern Territory
• Western Australia

Genre/Form

• diaries.
• Diaries
• Diaries.
• Journaux intimes.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

pt. 1. Biography. 1. The Context of a Life. 2. The Barker Manuscripts -- pt. 2. Raffles Bay. 3. The Settlement at Raffles Bay. 4. Captain Collet Barker's Journal. Fort Wellington, Raffles Bay -- Appendixes, Raffles Bay Journal -- pt. 3. King George Sound. 5. The Settlement at King George Sound. 6. Captain Collet Barker's Journal, Fredericks Town, King George Sound -- Appendixes, King George Sound Journal -- Aboriginal Index.

ISBN

• 0522844723
• 9780522844726

LCCN

93131172

OCLC

• ocm29475644
• 29475644
• SCSB-8904716

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library