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Australian Aboriginal Art: | Content (Books) |
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Abbie, Andrew A. THE ORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS. Origins, customs and way of life. BNo. n/a. First |
| | Edition nd (c 1969). Pp: 288; 215mm x 140mm; 0.65kg. 87 b/w(pl), 6 fig, 4 maps. Preface, |
| | bibliography and sources, addenda, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. A.H. & |
| | A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1969. (This book presents a picture of the Australian Aborigine and includes |
| | his origines, the customs and way of life developed, his prowess as a hunter and food gatherer, tribal |
| | customs and religions, sexual behaviour and restraints, and mental characteristics) (Keywords: |
| | Ethnology, Walbiri, Arnhem Land, totemism, material culture, tjacolo, churinga). |
| | Book Code: | H246 | AU | $42 |
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Aboriginal Arts Board. An Exhibition of OENPELLI PAINTINGS ON BARK. From the Oenpelli area of |
| | western Arnhem Land of North Australia. Text by Jennifer Isaacs. BNo. 0-908130-00-7. First Edition, |
| | c.1978 (pb). Pp: 51; 260mm x 210mm; 0.29kg. 18 b/w, 9 fig, 1 map. Foreword, preface, introduction, |
| | bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, |
| | Sydney, circa 1978. (This book was published by Australian Gallery Directors Council for the |
| | Aboriginal Arts Board as a catalogue for 52 bark paintings) (Keywords: X-ray paintings, spirit |
| | ancestors, Mimi spirits, Ngalyod, Benuk, Namarrkon). |
| | Book Code: | L326 | AU | $55 |
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Akerman, Kim with John Stanton. RIJI AND JAKOLI. Kimberley Pearl Shell in Aboriginal Australia. |
| | BNo. 0-7245-2842-3. First Edition, 1994 (pb). Pp: xii, 74; 250mm x 175mm; 0.22kg. 51 col, 2 b/w, 4 |
| | fig, 2 maps. Foreword, preface, acknow., introduction, conclusions, references, appendix. A very good |
| | paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin, 1994. (This study |
| | forcuses on a single class of objects, made of pearl shell, that originate on the Kimberley and |
| | north-west coasts, and which are widely distributed over much of the western half of the continent of |
| | Australia) (Keywords: Ra-indya, sawfish, Barnamba, stingray, Butcher Joe Nangan, Inguruku, rainbow |
| | snake, Basil Albert). |
| | Book Code: | N376 | AU | $17 |
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Allen, Louis A. TIME BEFORE MORNING. Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines. BNo. |
| | 7270-0076-4 First Aust. Edition, 1976 (1975). Pp: xvi, 304; 250mm x 190mm; 1.12kg. 30 col, 119 b/w, |
| | 1 map(dp). Introduction, forword, notes, the artists, bibliography, index. A good copy in dust wrapper |
| | which has minor tears. Wrp: g. Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1976. (A illustrated collection of myths and |
| | legends of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia's Arnhem Land. The illustrations used are |
| | reproductions from the author's collection of bark paintings and carved figures.) (Keyword: Djanggawul, |
| | Laindjung, Wagilag, Ngalyod, Kunmanggur, Mudungkala.). |
| | Book Code: | H051 | AU | $80 |
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