• Title
  Item 4: Translation of Early Hunting : Talk by an Aboriginal / Barhunji Tribe, east of the Darling New South Wales
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  probably 1930s
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings
• Reference code
  9670602
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (3 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (88 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji country covers the plains southwest of Broken Hill from near Tandou Lake; southwestward to Mount Bryan and Burra Creek, northwest of Morgan, South Australia; and chiefly extending eastward to within a few miles of the Darling River.
  
  Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. "D12: Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji". AustLang. Accessed 16 March 2023. https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/d12
• Scope and Content
  A Barhunji man translates into English his account spoken in his mother tongue. He explains how he was taught to hunt by his grandparents when he was a child. He describes being taught to hunt and cook prey, how to make fire, nets, spears and boomerangs.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Title as provided on item
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Recorded by Sound Recording Studios Ltd. 160 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
• Subject
  Hunting
  Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
  Family - Grandparents
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Social life and customs.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20568874

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