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Detail of wrapper of CORANDERRK - A History of the Aboriginal Station (massola03p 170/223 MASS03)
Massola, Aldo. CORANDERRK. A History of the Aboriginal Station. BNo. 0-909706-06-9. First Edition, 1975. Pp: xii, 109; 230mm x 170mm; 0.43kg. 52 b/w, 1 fig, 1 map. Introduction, appendices 1 to 11, footnotes, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (minor wear on dw; small penned name on fep) Lowden Publishing Co., Kilmore, Victoria, 1975. (This book is a description of the largest and most important Aboriginal station in Victoria. Appended to the text are several contemporary accounts of the Station) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, indigenous people, southeast).
Book Code: H059 AU$100
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McCarthy, F.D. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE. Revised edition by Robert Edwards. BNo. 0-644-02923-4. Reprint Second Edition, 1988 (1953)(pb). Pp: (ii), 48; 150mm x 220mm; 0.09kg. 164 b/w, 1 map. Preface. A very good paperback copy with staple binding. Wrp: vg. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1988. (This brochure was prepared for a travelling exhibition which toured United States and Canada during the period 1953 to 1957) (Keywords: Anthropology, social culture, ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal).

Book Code: N826 AU$10
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Detail of wrap - AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS (1967). Including Bone, Shell and Tooth Implements (mccarthy03bp 170/219 MCCA03)
McCarthy, F.D. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STONE IMPLEMENTS (1967). Including Bone, Shell and Tooth Implements. BNo.n/a. First Edition, 1967 (pb). Pp: 99; 240mm x 175mm; 0.25kg. 1 col, 69 b/w & fig. Introduction, glossary, list of references. A very good paperback copy in illustrated wrap. Wrp: vg (minor wear on wrp). Australian Museum, Sydney, 1967. (This book is a general illustrated overview of implements from all parts of Australia covering percussion, abrading and ritual implements, weapons, fire-making and fishing stones, and others) (Keywords: Archaeology, ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, material culture, stone implements).
Book Code: N774 AU$60
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Detail of wrap - DESERT PEOPLE (meggitt02ap 145/224 MEGG02)
Meggitt, M.J. DESERT PEOPLE (pb). A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia. BNo. 0-207-13005-1. Reprint Edition, 1984 (1962). Pp: xvi, 338; 215mm x 140mm; 0.60kg. 15 b/w, 9 fig, 25 tab, 1 map. Foreword, preface, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp; small penned name top corner of fep). Angus and Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1984. (This book deals with the tribe's history, contact with European settlers, relationships with neighbouring tribes, internal groupings and their economic, political, and religious significance) (Keywords: Cultural history, social anthropology, Central Australia, Aboriginal, indigenous, Walbiri).
Book Code: K005 AU$24
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Detail of wrap - COOPER'S CREEK - The story of the Burke and Wills Expedition in 1860 (moorehead20dp 145/220 MOOR20)
Moorehead, Alan. COOPER'S CREEK. The story of the Burke and Wills Expedition in 1860. BNo.0-17-006736-X. Reprint Edition, 1985 (1963) (pb). Pp: vi, 224; 195mm x 130mm; 0.20kg. 27 b/w, 14 fig, 2 maps. Note, acknowledgments, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (slight browning of page edges). Thomas Nelson Australia, Melbourne, 1985. (This book is the story of the fated drama of the Burke and Wills Expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860. The author has researched the expedition by reading all the documents, many of them unpublished, in the archives of the State Library in Melbourne - the diaries of the explorers, their letters, the evidence of the Royal Commission which was set up afterwards) (Keywords: Australia, exploration, Menindie, Innamincka, Birdsville, Cloncurry).
Book Code: D287 AU$10
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Morrison, Edgar. THE LODDON ABORIGINES. Tales of Old Jim Crow. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1971 (pb). Pp: viii, 111; 220mm x 140mm; 0.14kg. 10 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, contents. A very good paperback copy (staple and tape binding). Wrp: vg. Private publication, Abco Print, Daylesford, Victoria, 1971. (This regional survey is the last of a trilogy, each of which deals with a particular aspect of living conditions and racial relationships in the upper Loddon watershed, Victoria, Australia in the early Colonial period) (Keywords: Cultural history, Australia, Victoria, Aboriginal, sociology).
Book Code: N517 AU$35
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Detail of wrapper of BROWN MEN AND RED SAND. (mountford8p 150/232 MOUN08)
Mountford, Charles P. BROWN MEN AND RED SAND. (R&M). Wanderings in Wild Australia. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1948. Pp: xv, 184; 215mm x135mm; 0.47kg. 1 col, 62 b/w, 1 fig, 2 maps. introduction, foreword, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor wear; dw chipped at h&t of sto; also h&t of cvr sto sun-faded). Robertson & Mullens Limited, Melbourne, 1948. (A story of the author's journey among the desert Aborigines. He describes burial and rain-making ceremonies) (Keywords: Cultural sociology, anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Central, Uluru, Ayers, Katatjuta, ritual ceremonies).
Book Code: R366 SOLD - now out of stock AU$58
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Mountford, Charles P. MYTHES ET RITES DES ABORIGENES D'AUSTRALIE CENTRAL. Hommes Bruns et Sable Rouge. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1953 (pb). Pp: 207; 225mm x135mm; 0.25kg. 18 b/w(pl), 1 map. Preface, itineraires de l'auteur. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Payot, Paris, 1953. (All text is in the Frech language. A story of the author's journey among the desert Aborigines. He describes burial and rain-making ceremonies) (Keywords: Cultural sociology, anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Central, Uluru, Ayers, Katatjuta, ritual ceremonies).
Book Code: N514 AU$55
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Detail of front of wrap - ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS - First Nations of an Ancient Continent. (mueckep 140/200 MUEC1)
Muecke, Stephen & Adam Shoemaker. ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS. First Nations of an Ancient Continent. BNo. 0-500-30114-X. First Edition (UK), 2004 (pb). Pp: 128; 180mm x 125mm; 0.25kg. more than 120 col, b/w & fig, 1 map. Further reading, list of illustrations, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Thames and Hudson, London, 2004. (This publication illustrates the social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. It explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the indigenous people, their complex social structures and relationship with the land, and their struggle to survive the trials ofcolonisation and forced assimilation) (Keywords: Social and cultural history, social structures, Australia, Aboriginal, Dreamings, spiritual beliefs, colonisation).
Book Code: S080 AU$15
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Porteus, Stanley D. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. A Study of the Australian Aborigine. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1931. Pp: xvi, 438; 215mm x 140mm; 0.97kg. 81 b/w(pl), 3 fig, 19 tab, 3 maps. Preface, appendix, index. A good hardback copy in original red-cloth boards. Cvr: g. (slightly faded on sto). Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1931. (Part I outlines the physical background of the Aborigines and at the same time introduces psychological analysis based on observations by the author of their daily life and generalised behaviour. The first six chapters of Part II deal with the pyschology of the Australian social organisation, totemism, ceremonial observances and initiation) (Keywords: Psychology, Australia, Aboriginal, social organisation, ceremony).
Book Code: G234 AU$180
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