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Detail of dust wrapper of KING BUNGAREE (smithkv1p 150/193 SMIT35)
Smith, Keith Vincent. KING BUNGAREE. A Sydney Aborigine meets the great South Pacific explorers, 1799-1830. BNo. 0-86417-470-5. First Edition, 1992. Pp: 192; 240mm x 180mm; 0.73kg. 20 col(pl), 48 b/w & fig, 5 maps. Acknowledgments, appendices I to III, notes, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, Kenthurst, NSW, 1992. (In this story an Aboriginal takes on a range of attributes and emerges as a recognisable human being. The author also deals with pictorial representations of Aborigines in the first fifty years of settlement of Sydney) (Keywords: Cultural history, anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: U133 AU$45
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Smith, W. Ramsay. IN SOUTHERN SEAS. Wanderings of a Naturalist. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1924. Pp: xviii, 297; 215mm x 140mm; 0.65kg. 30 b/w(pl), 2 maps. Foreword, preface, index. A good hardback copy in original green-cloth boards. Cvr: g. (minor split back top turnover). John Murray, London, 1924. (A narrative about a naturalist's visit to New Caledonia, New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and Australia. There are five chapters on the Australian Aborigines) (Keywords: Anthropology, natural history, Pacific, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: C077 AU$125
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Detail of wrap - ABORIGINE. Myths and Legends. (smith60p 140/222 SMIT60)
Smith, William Ramsay. ABORIGINE. Myths and Legends. BNo. 0-09-185039-8. Reprinted Edition, 1996 (1930) (pb). Pp: 5 to 356; 215mm x 130mm; 0.34kg. Num b/w & fig. Preface, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Senate, Random House UK Ltd, London, 1996. (The myths of the Aborigines, the lore of their origins and of the natural world of the Australian outback are gathered in this volume. The legends are placed in the context of religion, kinship and social ties of this ancient people) (Keywords: Mythology, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: H343 AU$15
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Spencer, Baldwin. NATIVE TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA. Melville & Bathurst Islands; Arnhem Land, Oenpelli. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1914. Pp: xx, 516 + 2; 225mm x 150mm; 1.12kg. 92 b/w(pl), 8 col fig, 28 fig, num tab, 1 map. Preface, appendix, glossary of native terms, index. A good hardback copy in original green-cloth boards. Uncut pages & gilt decoration. Cvr: g. (slight flecking on ubd). Macmillan and Co Limited, London, 1914. (This book contains the scientific results of two surveys in the Northern Territory of Australia which were carried out by Baldwin Spencer in 1911 and 1912. The surveys included visits to Melville and Bathurst Islands where he was fortunate to see one of the most important ceremonies connected with the initiation of young men and also witness burial and mourning ceremonies. He spent time at Oenpelli on the East Alligator River where he was able to gain considerable insight into the sacred beliefs of the Kakadu people) (Keywords: Anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Melville, Bathurst Island, Arnhem Land, Oenpelli, initiation, burial, ceremony).
Book Code: E063 AU$950
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Detail of wrapper - BURNUM BURNUM'S ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA - A Traveller's Guide (stewart05p 170/234 STEW05)
Stewart, David (editor). BURNUM BURNUM'S ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA. A Traveller's Guide. BNo. 0-207-15630-1. First Edition, 1988. Pp: 328; 305mm x 215mm; 1.58kg. 300 col, 150 b/w, num fig & maps. Foreword, introduction, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Angus and Robertson Publishers, North Ryde, NSW, 1988. (This book takes the reader around the Australian continent through lands that were once the traditional territory of many indigenous nations, clans and groups reveling lifestyles, history, art and lore of the original Australians. Photographs and figures include scarification rituals in the Kimberley and archival portraits of Aborigines) (Keywords: Cultural history, natural, pictorial landscape, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: K255 AU$50
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Detail of wrap - POSSESSIONS - Indigenous Art/ Colonial Culture (thomas3p 150/223 THOM53)
Thomas, Nicholas. POSSESSIONS - Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture. Interplay Series - Arts + History + Theory. BNo. 0-500-28097-5. First Edition, 1999 (pb). Pp: 304; 230mm x 155mm; 0.80kg. 20 col, 153 b/w. Notes and sources, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (mint condition). Thames and Hudson, London, 1999. (This book focuses on the distinctive situation of the settler society, in particular in Australia and New Zealand, where large numbers of Europeans made their home, displacing, out numbering, but never entirely eclipsing native peoples. In this dynamic of dispossession and resistance, visual art has loomed large. Setller artists and designers have drawn on indigenous motifs and styles in their search for national distinctiveness. Yet powerful indigenous art traditions have also been used to assert the presence of native peoples and their prior claim to sovereignty. Moreover, cultural exchange proves a two-way process, and an unpredictable one: much contemporary indigenous art draws on modern Western art, while affirming ancestral values and rejecting the European appropriation of tribal culture) (Keywords: Indigenous art, Western art, Australia, New Zealand, Aboriginal, Maori, cultural exchange, settler artists).
Book Code: R401 AU$44
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Detail of wrapper - THE TASMANIANS - A unique Aboriginal race (travers01p 140/216 TRAV01)
Travers, Robert. THE TASMANIANS. A unique Aboriginal race. BNo. 67-2604. First Edition, 1968. Pp: x, 246; 210mm x 135mm; 0.50kg. 17 b/w(pl). List, author's note, acknowledgments, introduction, afterword, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Cassell Australia Ltd, Melbourne, 1968. (The book has six parts: anthropological background of Aborigines, the explorers, the settlers, the Vandemonians, the Black War, and the last Tasmanians) (Keywords: Anthropology, colonial history, Australia, Tasmania, Aboriginal).
Book Code: N771 AU$35
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Detail of wrap - POSSESSIONS - Indigenous Art/ Colonial Culture (wiseman1p 170/205 WISE01)
Wiseman, Judith Proctor. THOMSON TIME. Arnhem Land in the 1930s: a photographic essay. BNo. 0-7306-2509-5. First Edition, 1996. Pp: xviii, 94; 250mm x 250mm; 0.76kg. 48 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, introduction, editorial note, glossary, references, contributors, index. A very good hardback copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 1996. (This book presents an account of the lives of Yolngu people in the 1930s) (Keywords: Cultural history, ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Arnhem Land, Yolngu).
Book Code: R415 AU$40
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Detail of wrap - WHY WARRIORS LIE DOWN AND DIE (trudgen05p 155/223 TRUD05)
Trudgen, Richard. WHY WARRIORS LIE DOWN AND DIE. Towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact. BNo.9-780646-395876. Seventh Printing, 2007 (2000) (pb). Pp: (8), vi, 270; 240mm x 170mm; 0.70kg. 3 maps. Acknowledgments, glossary, bibliography, detailed subject index, references. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc., Darwin, 2007. (Why Warriors Lie Down and Die is essential reading for anyone interested in indigenous peoples. In Arnhem Land the situation is dire: health is poor, unemployment rife and life short. Why Warriors provides a fresh analysis of this crisis and offers examples of how the people can once again take control of their own lives) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Northern Australia, Aboriginal, Arnhem Land, Yolgnu, health, employment, education, crisis analysis).
Book Code: V317 AU$25
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Detail of cover - THE NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (woods20ap 145/217 WOOD20)
Woods, J.D. (editor). THE NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA (std). Containing six papers of ethnography from the end of 1870s. BNo. 1-876154-14-4. Facsimile Edition, 1997 (1879) (std). Pp: (viii), xliv, 316; 210mm x 135mm; 0.68kg. 8 col. Opening comments, introduction. A very good hardback copy. Cvr: vg. E.S. Wigg & Son, Adelaide, 1879. Friends of the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 1997. (Limited Edition of 501 copies. The contributors include: The Rev George Taplin, Dr Wyatt, The Rev A. Meyer, The Rev. C.W. Schurmann, S. Gason, and John Wm. Ogilvie. The authors describe the manners, customs, superstitions, and vocabulary of some of the South Australian tribes; the Narrinyeri (150 km southeast of Adelaide), the Nauo (Port Lincoln about 400 km northwest of Adelaide), the Kaurna (Adelaide), the Dieyerie (1000 km north of Adelaide), and the Woolna people of the Northern Territory) (Keywords: Anthropology, Australia, South, Narrinyeri, Adelaide Tribe, Port Lincoln, Dieyerie, Nauo, Woolna).
Book Code: K044 AU$75
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