Old Man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point
Haviland, John B., 1998
with Roger Hart, Illustrations by Tulo
Gordon, 1998
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
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FOREWORD ix
Noel Pearson
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
INTRODUCTION: "WILL YOU WRITE DOWN MY
LANGUAGE?" xv
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
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 94
DIASPORA
The Barrow Point People Visit the South 99
The Second Trip South 107
Point Lookout 111
Escape from Wawu Ngalan 115
The Missioner's Revenge
Exile 123
Roger Hart at the Cape Bedford Mission 127
Wartime 130
RETURN TO BARROW POINT
lipwulin 139
Delousing 148
On the Beach at Barrow Point 153
Wurrey's Ghost 159
"All These People Gone" 161
Thunder and Fog 165
Camping at Uwuru 169
Fog's Revenge 184
AFTERWORD: BARROW POINT IN THE 1990S 189
GLOSSARY 191
NOTES 193
BIBLIOGRAPHY 217
INDEX 219Part Four