Pila Nguru
Subtitle: the Spinifex people
By: Scott Cane.
Publisher: Fremantle Art Centre Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: North Fremantle, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Western Australia.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure.; Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Desert (W.A.) -- Social conditions.; Land use -- Western Australia.
Description: "Pila Nguru is a detailed account of the culture and history of the Spinifex People, an almost invisible people in modern Aboriginal Australia, known only by rumour to observers of Aboriginal culture and absent from virtually all Western Desert anthropological scholarship. Hidden from European eyes until the 1950s, the last of the Spinifex nomads remained uncontacted in their homelands until 1986, making them perhaps the last hunter-gatherers on earth."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-260) and index.