Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACROSS AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- RICHARD CLAY AND SONS
- Plates 106 to 184
- Plates 185 to 295
- Plates 296 to 365 and maps
CHAPTER XIII
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACROSS AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- RICHARD CLAY AND SONS
- Plates 106 to 184
- Plates 185 to 295
- Plates 296 to 365 and maps
Summary
BARROW CREEK AND THE KAITISH AND UNMATJERA TRIBES
Barrow creek was our central station amongst the Kaitish tribe, and we were soon at work amongst the natives, who sent out messengers to bring in as many of the tribe as could be gathered together. The day after our arrival we unpacked our stores of knives, tomahawks, looking-glasses, bead necklets and pipes, and displayed them before a deputation of the natives, with the result that they at once returned to their camps and spread the news amongst the others. In a very short time we were busily engaged, bartering our goods in exchange for native things. A stick of tobacco or a single-bladed knife readily purchased a shield, spear or pitchi. Half a stick was quite enough for a boomerang or a bunch of neck or arm ringlets.
Knives and hatchets were most in request, but these were only given in exchange for something really good, or to secure the goodwill of some old man whose sympathy we wanted to enlist. The oldest man amongst them, who was evidently much looked up to by the others and whose native name was Tungulla, we attached to our staff. His remuneration consisted of three meals daily, and a liberal supply of tobacco.
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- Across Australia , pp. 318 - 341Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1912