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Tindale, Norman B. & Joseph B. Birdsell. TASMANOID TRIBES IN NORTH QUEENSLAND - Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939. Extracts from Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol.VII, No.1, 1941. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1941 (pb). Pp: 1 to 9; 240mm x 185mm; 0.04kg. 12 b/w. Introduction, summary, references cited. A very good paperback copy in printed card wrapper. Wrp: vg. South Australian Museum, Hassell Press, Adelaide, 1941. (The purpose of the paper is to record briefly the existence of a Tasmanoid group on the mainland, paying most attention to their occurrence on the Atherton Plateau region of North Queensland) (Keywords: Anthropology, material culture, Australia, Aboriginal, Bandjin, Newegi, Agwamin, Wakaman, Muluridji).
Book Code: L092 AU$35
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Tindale, Norman B. GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SOME POPULATION CHANGES OF THE KAIADILT People of Bentinck Island, Queenland. Extracts from Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol.14, No.2, 1962. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1962 (pb). Pp: 259-336; 240mm x 175mm; 0.20kg. 8 b/w(pl), 3 fig,2 tab, 1 folded map. Summary, introduction, acknowledgments, references cited, appendix. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. South Australian Museum. W.L. Hawes, Adelaide, 1962. (This paper gives an account of the native geography of Bentinck Island and its vicinity, the home of the Kaiadilt, an isolated Aboriginal tribe of eight hordes) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australian Aboriginal, Nagataiwind, Kandingarupai).
Book Code: L283 AU$45
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Tindale, Norman B. NATIVES of GROOTE EYLANDT and the West Coast of the GULF of CARPENTARIA. Part 1 & 2. Extracts from Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol.III, No.1, 1925. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1925 (pb). Pp: 61-102 & 103-134; 240mm x 185mm; 0.30kg. 18 & 22 b/w, 8 fig, 4 maps. Prologue, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. South Australian Museum. The Hassell Press, Adelaide, 1925. (The main center for the author's study was the six sub-tribes of the Ingura in the region of islands of the Groote Eylandt Archipelago. There are many illustrations of their dancing staves, ceremonial objects and corrobboree sticks) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australian Aboriginal, Arnhem Land, Amalipa, Imudunga, Bartalumbu, throwing-stick, yumangala, boomerang, aribina).
Book Code: L120 AU$120
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Tindale, Norman B. TOTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE WESTERN DESERT OF AUSTRALIA. Part II - Musical Rocks and Associated Objects of the Pitjandjara People. Contained in Records of the South Australian Museum Vol.14 No.3 1963. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963 (pb). Pp: 499-514; 240mm x 180mm; 0.47kg. 4 b/w, 6 fig. Summary, introduction, acknowledgments, references cited. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. South Australian Museum, W.L. Hawes, Adelaide, 1963. (The large static or musical rocks of the Pitjandjara tribes-people are described. (Also included in these Records are another paper by Tindale - 'Tjurunga-Stone Pendant...' and Mountford - 'Aboriginal Skin Rugs'.) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, kondala, 'mina, Makurapiti, windaru tjukur, Konapandi).
Book Code: L134 AU$45
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Detail of wrap - TRUST - Who Talks for My Country Now? (turner20p 240/175 TURN20)
Turner, Jan (editor & curator) et al. TRUST - Who Talks for My Country Now? Ngaanyatjarra Country and People. Tjulyuru Regional Art Gallery, Warburton, Western Australia. BNo.0-9585928-3-7. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: vi, 90; 215mm x 300mm; 0.46kg. num col, some b/w & fig, 2 maps. Acknowledgments and publication details, foreword, last word, list of works, glossary, timeline. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Tjulyuru Regional Art Gallery, Warburton, Western Australia, 2003. (This book outlines the culture and heritage of the Ngaanyatjarra people and their early contact with explorers and miners. It is also a catalogue for an exhibition of paintings and works held in Warburton in 2003) (Keywords: Cultural heritage, history, Western Australia, Aboriginal, contemporary paintings and works, Ngaanyatjarra people).
Book Code: V223 AU$35
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Tweedie, Penny. SPIRIT OF ARNHEM LAND. Aboriginal Australians. BNo. 1-87662227-X. Reprint Edition 2005 (1998). Pp: 168; 300mm x 265mm; 1.12kg. 174 col, 1 map. Preface, acknowledgments, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2005. (This book is a perceptive insight into the lives of the people of Arnhem Land striving to maintain their heritage and traditional life in a modern world) (Keywords: Sociology, culture, Australia, Aboriginal, Arnhem Land).
Book Code: S281 AU$35
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Detail of wrap - PAPUNYA TULA (weber05p 180/191 WEBE05)(cover: William Sandy - Bush Tucker Dreaming at Wingellina, 1988)
Weber, John & Anthony Forge. PAPUNYA TULA. Contemporary Paintings from Australia's Western Desert. BNo.n/a. First Edition, 1989 (pb). Pp: (24); 230mm x 230mm; 0.11kg. 15 col, 1 b/w. Acknowledgments, introduction, essay, exhibition checklist. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). John Weber Gallery, New York, 1989. (This catalogue was produced for the exhibition of Aboriginal paintings held in the John Weber Gallery in New York in 1989. It contains essays by John Weber (Papunya Tula: Contemporary Paintings from Australia's Western Desert) and by Anthony Forge (Tradition in the Present: The Art of the Australian Central Desert)) (Keywords: Contemporary painting, Central Australia, Aboriginal, Western Desert).
Book Code: V233 AU$85
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West, Margie (editor). 15TH NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART AWARD. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Travelling Exhibition. BNo. 0-7245-4609-X. First Edition, 1998 (pb). Pp: (ii), 58; 220mm x 220mm; 0.25kg. 47 col, 2 b/w. Preface, introduction, message, acknowledgments, references. A very good paperback copy in illustrated wrap. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1998. (This catalogue presents the category winners and other entrants to the 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Categories include: paintings on canvas, bark paintings, and sculptures.) (Keywords: Jody Broun, Wukun Wanambi, Michael Anning, Eubena Nampitjin.).
Book Code: S048 AU$18
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Detail of front cover of TELSTRA NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART AWARD. (west4p 160/163)
West, Margie & Colin Jack-Hinton. TELSTRA NATIONAL ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART AWARD: Celebrating 20 Years. BNo.0-646-43287-7. First Edition, 2004 (pb). Pp: 158; 220mm x 220mm; 0.65kg. num col, some b/w. Director's foreword, sponsor's message, endnotes, acknowledgments, touring venues. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 2004. (This catalogue illustrates the winning works of the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for seven categories; First Prize, Bark Painting, General Painting, Work on Paper, Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial, Peoples' Choice, and Highly Commended. There are also short biographies and profiles ofthe artists) (Keywords: Contemporary art, traditional, Australia, Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders).
Book Code: R298 AU$19
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Detail of wrap - STONE TOOLS AS CULTURAL MARKERS. (wright20ap 180/252 WRIG20)
Wright, R.V.S. (editor). STONE TOOLS AS CULTURAL MARKERS. Change, evolution and complexity. BNo. 391-00836-6-6. First Edition 1977 (pb). Pp: 400; 295mm x 210mm; 1.28kg. Num b/w, fig, maps and tab. Introduction, references, list of contributors, index. A good paperback copy with minor marking of top page ends. Wrp: g. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1977. (Stone tools are the world's most common archaeological artefacts and are often the only surviving ones. They have been used to infer human presence in remote geographical periods, patterns of trade, and cultural diffusion, technological adaptation, cultural evolution and the economic basis of their makers. All of these themes appear in papers in this volume) (Keywords: Archaeology, Australia, New Guinea, Western Desert, Tasmania).
Book Code: J033 AU$65
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