Title: Material culture of the North Wellesley Islands
Description: Provides an ethnographic description of the material culture traditionally employed by the Aboriginal people of the North Wellesley Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
Subjects: Lardil (Australian people), Material culture, Social life and customs, Habitation - Camps, Housing - Shelters - Bark, Language - Vocabulary - Animal names, Fishing, Food - Preparation - Cooking, Environment - Land management - Fire, Weapons, Costume and clothing, Dance, Ceremonies - Initiation, Body - Decoration, Death - Mortuary customs, Material culture - String and rope making, Technology - Wood, Hunting - Dugong, Lardil people (G38) (Qld SE54-01), Lardil language (G38) (Qld SE54-01)
Places: Wellesley Islands (Qld Gulf Islands SE54-01)