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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Front Matter

FOREWORD ix

Noel Pearson

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 94

 

Part Three

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

Part Four

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

 

Closing matter

AFTERWORD: BARROW POINT IN THE 1990S 189

GLOSSARY 191

NOTES 193

BIBLIOGRAPHY 217

INDEX 219Part Four

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