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Proceedings of the Kimberley Society, Kimberley History Seminar Held at the University of Western Australia, 27 March 2010.

A Welcome addition to the literature on the Kimberley, this is an edited volume of the proceedings of a 2010 seminar on the people, exploration and development of the Kimberley. The contributions reflect the broad nature of research on the Kimberley and add considerably to our knowledge about the forces, events and episodes that have shaped the region since colonisation.

Includes, amongst others, papers on Kimberley archaeology, maritime exploration, Joespeh Bradshaw, the gold rush of 1885-1886. the expeditions of Alexander Forrest, Frank Hann and Frederick Brockman, and Christian missions.

Art, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Kimberley region, Kimberley (W.A.) — Discovery and exploration, Kimberley Region (W.A.), Kimberley Region (W.A.) — History, Western Australia

• Settlement and contacts – Explorers
• Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
• Art – Subjects – Wandjina
• Art – Rock art
• Art – Subjects – Gwion Gwion figures
• Demography – Palaeodemography – Aboriginal settlement of Australia
• Religions – Christianity – Missions
• Religions – Christianity – Catholic Church
• History
• Settlement and contacts – Macassans and Indonesians
• Habitation
• Kimberley (W.A.) — Discovery and exploration
• Kimberley (W.A.) — History
• Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
• Kalumburu (WA Drysdale East Kimberley SD52-09)
• Kunmunya (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
• Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
• Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
• Forrest River (WA East Kimberley SD52-09, SD52-10, SD52-14)
• Camden Sound (WA West Kimberley SD51-15)
• Iwany / Sunday Island (WA West Kimberley SE51-03)
• Marigui Promontory (WA West Kimberley SD51-16)
• Australian

• xi, 227 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.

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