Food for thought: a report on the 1985 archaeological and ethnographic investigations into the 'x-ray' concept in the art and culture of Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Taçon, Paul Stephen Charles

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Food for thought: a report on the 1985 archaeological and ethnographic investigations into the 'x-ray' concept in the art and culture of Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Authors

Taçon, Paul Stephen Charles

Abstract

One of the first anthropologists to formally study some of the tribes of Western Arnhem Land was W. Baldwin Spencer. In 1912 he spent over two months at Oenpelli as a guest of Paddy Cahill. Cahill was a reknowned buffalo shooter and friend of the Aborigines who settled at Oenpelli in 1906 after twenty years of hunting in the area.