ABORIGINAL – WEST AUSTRALIANA –

As a result of dialogue between Tommy Dodd, a Northern Nyangumarta elder, and Father Kevin McKelson, who worked at the La Grange Mission in the 1960s this diary gradually evolved into organised linguistic field notes showing the beauty and versatility of the Northern Nyangumarta language and customs and culture of its people.

• 209 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans, ports., maps ; 30 cm.
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Kinship terms
  • Literature and stories
  • Daily life
  • Language – Linguistics – Vocabulary and grammar
  • Ceremonies
  • Language – Linguistics – Language elicitation – Translated
  • Language – Vocabulary – Place names
  • Hunting, gathering and fishing
  • Education – Language
  • Religions – Christianity – Missions
  • Karajarri people (A64) (WA SE51-10)
  • Nyangumarta / Nyangumarda language (A61) (WA SF51-10)
  • Nyangumarta / Nyangumarda people (A61) (WA SF51-10)
  • Nyangumarta language A61
  • Bidyadanga / Lagrange (WA West Kimberley SE51-10)

  Subject:

  • Nyangumarta language — Study and teaching
  • Aboriginal Australians — Communication — Western Australia — Pilbara
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Pilbara — Social life and customs

  Other authors/contributors:

  • Dodd, Tommy
  • Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
  • #050325