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Barrow Point, on the far northern coast of Queensland, Australia, was once the home of numerous Aboriginal groups. For countless centuries these indigenous people worked the sea, the rivers, and the forests, memorializing the landscape and its animals in a rich body of songs and folktales. With the arrival of Europeans during a succession of gold rushes in Queensland, however, they were driven away from their homeland. John Haviland, an American anthropologist, and Roger Hart, an elderly Barrow Point Aborigine, reconstruct some of that body of oral literature here. Hart narrates a series of stories about Old Man Fog, who moves about the countryside talking with curlews, lizards, dingoes, foxes, and snakes, learning their ways and occasionally suffering their tricks. Many of these stories point to lessons on how the Aboriginal peoples learned how to live in this difficult country, where sources of fresh water are few and dangers many. They address ritually powerful story places, points on the land that possess special significance. While noting the irony of the folkloric enterprise (what were once moral tales for initiated adults have become fairy tales for childrens books), Haviland provides useful commentary on Harts stories, which shed light on the ethnography and natural history of Australia. --Gregory McNamee

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The Old Man Fog
Page ii SMITHSONIAN SERIES IN ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY William L Merrill and - photo 2
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SMITHSONIAN SERIES IN ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY
William L. Merrill and Ivan Karp, Series Editors
Ethnography as fieldwork, analysis, and literary form is the distinguishing feature of modern anthropology. Guided by the assumption that anthropological theory and ethnography are inextricably linked, this series is devoted to exploring the ethnographic enterprise.
Advisory Board
Richard Bauman (Indiana University), Gerald Berreman (University of California, Berkeley), James Boon (Princeton University), Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota), Shirley Lindenbaum (City University of New York), George Marcus (Rice University), David Parkin (University of Oxford), Renato Rosaldo (Stanford University), and Norman Whitten (University of Illinois)
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Old Man Fog
and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point
John B. Haviland with Roger Hart
Illustrations by Tulo Gordon
Page iv 1998 by the Smithsonian Institution All rights reserved Copy - photo 3
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1998 by the Smithsonian Institution
All rights reserved
Copy editor: Jean Eckenfels
Production editor: Jack Kirshbaum
Designer: Linda McKnight
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Haviland, John Beard.
Old man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point /
John B. Haviland with Roger Hart ; illustrations by
Tulo Gordon.
p. cm. (Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56098-913-0 (cloth : alk. paper).
ISBN 1-56098-803-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Australian aboriginesAustraliaBarrow Point (Qld.)
History. 2. Hart, Roger. 3. Australian aboriginesAustralia
Barrow Point (Qld.)Biography. 4. Mythology, Australian
aboriginalAustraliaBarrow Point (Qld.). I. Hart, Roger.
II. Title. III. Series.
GN667.Q4H38 1998
305.899150943dc21 98-38563
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
Manufactured in the United States of America
05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Picture 4 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials ANSI Z39.48-1984.
For permission to reproduce illustrations appearing in this book, please correspond directly with the author, John B. Haviland. The Smithsonian Institution Press does not retain reproduction rights for these illustrations individually, or maintain a file of addresses for photo sources.
Frontispiece (page vi): Detail from King Harry thrown overboard by Tulo Gordon (figure 6)
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To two cousins, Tulo Wunba Gordon,
thawuunh, bubu-gujin, binaal-gurraay-baga, and
Lizzie Confin Jack, ngathu warra ngamu,
both present throughout,
but gone too soon to see the book itself.
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Page vii CONTENTS Foreword Noel Pearson ix - photo 5
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Noel Pearson
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: "Will You Write down My Language?"
xv
Part One
The Stories of Barrow Point
Hopevale and Hope Valley
3
Wurrey
13
Fog Visits Guraaban
16
The Giant Dingo Dog
19
The Stories: Owners and Morals
23
Swallowed by the Earth
30
Part Two
Barrow Point
Barrow Point at the Turn of the Century
35
Bush Tucker
50
Yiithuu-warra
55
The Porcupine
65
Nganyja
68
Witches
75
The Problem of "Half-Caste" Children
78
From Barrow Point to Cape Bedford
88
A Sunset Glow
92
The Scrub Python at Cape Melville
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