Research Catalog
Quest under Capricorn
- Title
- Quest under Capricorn / by David Attenborough.
- Author
- Attenborough, David, 1926-
- Publication
- London : Lutterworth Press, 1963.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 1901.131 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 162 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- Nourlangie - Oenpelli, rock paintings, X-ray figures, Mamaragan, the lighting man, human hands; description of bird and animal life; paintings at Obiri, drawings executed by the Mimi people; Maningrida - Gunavidji tribe - mission life, bark painting; Yurlunggur (giant trumphet), two natives add designs to it, myth relating to Yurlunggur, structure of Burada society, ceremony, (Big Sunday) ritual painting of body; film taken of ceremony; funeral rites at Melville Island; Borroloola to Alice Springs; Walbiri tribe, fire making, eating honey ants, ecology, body decoration for initiation ceremony, Dreamtime beliefs.
- Subject
- Attenborough, David, 1926-
- Ethnology > Australia > Northern Territory
- Burarra people (N135) (NT SD53-03)
- Ndjebbana > Gunavidji > Gunibidji people (N74) (NT SD53-02)
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Stories and motifs > Ants and termites
- Art > Painting > Bark
- Art > Rock art > Painting
- Art > Subjects > Dynamic figures > Mimi
- Art > Art motifs > Hand
- Art > Art motifs > X-Ray
- Animals > Birds
- Body > Decoration
- Religion > Rites > Ceremonial objects
- Ceremonies > Initiation
- Religions > Christianity > Missions
- Religions > Christianity > Baptist Church
- Environment > Land management > Fire
- Hunting
- Food > Insects
- Death > Mortuary > funeral ceremonies
- Film > Ethnographic
- Ethnology
- Travel
- Ethnology > Australia > Northern Territory
- Iwi taketake
- Northern Territory > Description and travel
- Yermalner > Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Gunbalanya > Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)
- Maningrida (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- Nourlangie (Kakadu, NT SD53-01)
- Ubirr > Obiri (Kakadu, NT SD53-01)
- Borroloola (North NT SE53-03)
- Mparntwe > Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
- Northern Territory
- Northern Territory > Description and travel
- Genre/Form
- History
- LCCN
- 64056305
- OCLC
- ocm08937323
- 8937323
- SCSB-895456
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library