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Thomson, Donald Fergusson (detail)
   
1934
The dugong hunters of Cape York.
Jour. Roy. Anthrop. Inst. Great Britain & Ireland 64: 237-263. 9 figs. Pls. 29-31. July-Dec. 1934.
–Detailed description of dugong hunting by the Aboriginal tribes of the eastern Cape York Peninsula, Australia, including their canoes, harpoons and lines, harpooning and butchering techniques, magic, and ritual; a myth of the making of the first dugong harpoon rope; and specialized vocabulary for dugongs and dugong hunting.
 
 
Thomson, Donald Fergusson (detail)
   
1956
The fishermen and dugong hunters of Princess Charlotte Bay.
Walkabout 22(11): 33-36. 3 figs. Nov. 1, 1956.
 
 
Thomson, Donald Fergusson (detail)
   
1985
Donald Thomson's mammals and fishes of northern Australia. Edited and annotated by Joan M. Dixon and Linda Huxley.
Melbourne, Thomas Nelson: xi + 210. Tabs. 24 figs. 91 pls. 60 maps.
–Dugong, 15, 17, 156-162, 191, 194, 197, 203.

Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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