Donald Thomson
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Australian anthropologist and ornithologist and Indigenous rights campaigner
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson OBE was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist. he is known for his studies of and friendship with the Pintupi and Yolngu peoples, and for his intervention in the Caledon Bay crisis.
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- Economic Structive and the Ceremonial Exchange Cycle in Arnhem Land (1951) (146)
- The Seasonal Factor in Human Culture Illustrated from the Life of a Contemporary Nomadic Group (1939) (133)
- The Dugong Hunters of Cape York. (1934) (55)
- THE JOKING RELATIONSHIP AND ORGANIZED OBSCENITY IN NORTH QUEENSLAND1 (1935) (54)
- Some Wood and Stone Implements of the Bindibu Tribe of Central Western Australia (1964) (54)
- The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York. (1933) (46)
- Arnhem Land: Explorations among an Unknown People Part III. On Foot across Arnhem Land (1949) (33)
- Names and Naming in the Wik Monkan Tribe (1946) (23)
- Arnhem Land: Explorations among an Unknown People. Part II. The People of Blue Mud Bay (1949) (19)
- 76. Notes on the Smoking-Pipes of North Queensland and the Northern Territory of Australia (1939) (18)
- FATHERHOOD IN THE WIK MONKAN TRIBE (1936) (18)
- Notes on a Hero Cult from the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland. (1934) (17)
- Notes on Some Bone and Stone Implements from North Queensland. (1936) (13)
- Arnhem Land: Explorations among an Unknown People Part I. The Journey to Bennet Bay (1948) (12)
- Kinship and behaviour in North Queensland;: A preliminary account of kinship and social organisation on Cape York Peninsula (1972) (11)
- 1. Notes on Some Primitive Watercraft in Northern Australia (1952) (10)
- 198. Ceremonial Presentation of Fire in North Queensland. A Preliminary Note on the Place of Fire in Primitive Ritual. (1932) (10)
- 131. Marrngitmirri and Kalka-Medicineman and Sorcerer-In Arnhem Land (1961) (10)
- The Bindibu Expedition: Exploration among the Desert Aborigines of Western Australia: I. The Approach (1962) (9)
- The Bindibu Expedition. Exploration among the Desert and Aborigines of Western Australia: III. The Bindibu (1962) (8)
- Preliminary Notes on a Collection of Snakes from Cape York Peninsula. (1935) (8)
- An Arnhem Land adventure (1948) (6)
- 1. Two Painted Skulls from Arnhem Land, with Notes on the Totemic Significance of the Designs (1939) (6)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE VENOM OF A MELANOTIC INSULAR VARIETY OF THE TIGER SNAKE ( NOTECHIS SCUTATIS ) (1932) (5)
- 216. A New Type of Fish Trap from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of Australia (1938) (4)
- 180. The Moulding of Clay in Arnhem Land (1954) (4)
- 109. The Tree Dwellers of the Arafura Swamps: A New Type of Bark Canoe from Central Arnhem Land (1939) (4)
- The Bindibu Expedition: Exploration among the Desert Aborigines of Western Australia. II. kimai-labbi-labbi (1962) (3)
- 44. Two Devices for the Avoidance of First-Cousin Marriage Among the Australian Aborigines (1955) (3)
- Notes on the Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) (1923) (3)
- Observations on the Venom of a Large Australian Snake, Pseudechis australis (Gray). 2. The Venom Yields and Venom. (3)
- Report on expedition to Arnhem Land, 1936-37 (1939) (3)
- The White-fronted Chat at home (1920) (1)
- The Nesting Habits of the Grass-Warbler (Cisticola exilis) (1)
- 228. A Bark Sandal from the Desert of Central Western Australia (1960) (0)
- Notes on the Harmonious Shrike-Thrush (Colluricincla harmonca) (1923) (0)
- The First Australians [Book Review] (1965) (0)
- In the Haunt of the Grey Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus). (1922) (0)
- The Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin (Eopsaltria australis) (1921) (0)
- Tamoxifen - Clinical-Trial in Premenopausal Women with Metastatic Carcinoma of the Breast (1979) (0)
- 2. A Narcotic from Nicotiana Ingulba, Used by the Desert Bindibu: Chewing of a True Tobacco in Central Australia (1961) (0)
- Nesting of Black-fronted Dottrel (0)
- War-Time Exploration in Dutch New Guinea (1953) (0)
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