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Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Villes frontières --- Sheep --- Mouton --- Ethnology --- Ethnologie --- Recreation - Games - String games and string figures. --- Housing - Shelters. --- Hunting. --- Fishing. --- Gender relations - Betrothal. --- Recreation - Play. --- Communications - Message sticks. --- Initiation - Tooth avulsion. --- Social organisation - Avoidance rules. --- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes. --- Ceremonies - Initiation. --- Environment - Land management - Fire. --- Technology - Fire - Fire making. --- Communications - Messengers. --- Gender relations - Division of labour. --- Weapons. --- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing. --- Health - Physiology and diseases. --- Death - Mortuary customs. --- Costume and clothing - Nose pegs and piercing. --- Magic and sorcery - Clever people. --- Feuds and warfare - Avenging. --- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking. --- Plants - Figs. --- Bangerang people (S40) (Vic SJ55-02) --- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool. --- Transport - Water - Canoes. --- Gender relations - Marriage. --- Cannibalism. --- Colbinabbin (N Vic SJ55-01) --- Goulburn River (N Vic SJ55-01) --- Ovens River (N Vic SJ55-01) --- Moira (N Vic SJ55-02) --- Tongala (N Vic SJ55-01) --- Lake Boga (NW Vic SI54-16) --- Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)