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Herle, Anita and Sandra Rouse (editors). CAMBRIDGE AND THE TORRES STRAIT. Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Edition.

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Herle, Anita and Sandra Rouse (editors). CAMBRIDGE AND THE TORRES STRAIT. Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. BNo. 0-5215-8461-2. First Edition, 1998. Pp: xv, 252; 240mm x 185mm; 0.72kg. 69 b/w & fig, 6 maps. Notes, acknowledgments, list, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Cambridge University Press, London, 1998. (In 1898 a team from the University of Cambridge set out for the Torres Strait. Led by A.C. Haddon, their goal wa a comprehensive study. The nine interdisciplinary essays in this volume offer new ways of looking at and situating the Expedition's work in historical and intellectual debates. The book contains a number of photographs of Haddon, Rivers, Seligman and other members of the team going about their work) (Keywords: Ethnology, anthropology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, ethnomusicology, Pacific, Melanesia, Torres Strait).
Book Code: L002 AU$135
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Detail of front cover of ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TORRES STRAIT (moore1p 150/206 MOOR01)
Moore, David R. ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TORRES STRAIT. Shire Ethnography Series. BNo. 0-7478-0007-3. First Edition, 1989 (pb). Pp: 64; 210mm x 150mm; 0.14kg. 48 b/w & fig, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, further reading, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, UK, 1989. (In this study of the Torres Strait Islanders, the author considers the utilitarian, religious, recreational, personal, commercial and military products of the island craftsmen and their application and usage in the many aspects of island life) (Keywords: Ethnology, material culture, Pacific, Australia, Melanesia, doiom, Massid, Tutu, Waier, Waiet).
Book Code: N243 AU$25
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Moore, David R. ISLANDERS AND ABORIGINES AT CAPE YORK. An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848-1850 'Rattlesnake' Journals of O.W. Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson. BNo. 0-85575-076-6. First Edition, 1978. Pp: xii, 340; 250mm x 180mm; 0.88kg. 19 b/w(pl), 9 fig, 5 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978. (This book is an adventure story and a detailed ethnography of a hitherto little-known group of hunters and gardeners at the frontier between Australia and New Guinea) (Keywords: Ethnography, Australia, Torres Strait, prehistory, Kaurareg, Gudang).
Book Code: N763 SOLD - now out of stock AU$40
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Detail of cover of ILAN PASIN (mosby1p 150/226 MOSB01)
Mosby, Tom, & Brian Robinson. ILAN PASIN. (This is Our Way). BNo. 0-9586858-4-3. First Edition, 1998 (pb). Pp: 152; 305mm x 245mm; 0.98kg. 100 col, 2 b/w, 1 map. Prefaces, introduction, list of works, acknowledgments, author and writer biographies. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, 1998. (This book acccompanied the first Australian retrospective exhibition on Torres Strait art. This book provides, for the first time a Torres Strait Islander perspective on the history, customs, legends and artistic expressions of a people who existed as a minority within the minority of indigenous Australians) (Keywords: Cultural history, Pacific, Australia, Melanesia, artefacts, contemporary art, language, religion).
Book Code: L100 AU$44
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Philp, Jude. PAST TIME: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888-1905. A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge. BNo. 1-876944-03-X. First Edition, 2001 (pb). Pp: x, 53; 200mm x 270mm; 0.33kg. 28 col, 22 b/w, 6 maps. Foreword, introduction, selected reading and bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2001. (This book was produced to accompany the exhibition of part of the Torres Strait Islander material from the Haddon Collection. This catalogue is divided into the five broad regions of the Torres Strait and illustrates forty-five of the objects along with archival photographs from the original University of Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait in 1888) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Torres Strait Islanders, masks, clubs, ceremony, ritual).
Book Code: P241 AU$18
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Singe, John. THE TORRES STRAIT. People and History. BNo. 0-7022-1417-5. First Edition, 1979. Pp: xv, 267; 235mm x 175mm; 0.72kg. 28 b/w(pl) & fig, 3 maps. Acknowledgments, preface, introduction, sources, glossary, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1979. (The author traces the history of the Torres Strait and follows the evolution of Island societies as they have been shaped and reshaped by dramatic events) (Keywords: Social history, Pacific, Australia, Melanesia, Indigenous people, Muralug, Saibai, Nahgi, Mer, Thursday Island, Papuans).
Book Code: P190 SOLD - now out of stock AU$30
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Wilson, Lindsay. THATHILGAW EMERET LU. A Handbook of Traditional Torres Strait Islands Material Culture. BNo. 0-7242-2922-1. First Edition, 1988 (pb). Pp: xvi, 140; 210mm x 295mm; 0.70kg. 232 fig, 1 map. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, bibliography, further reading. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Department of Education, Queensland, 1988. (The title comes from in part from Eastern and Western Island languages meaning 'very old things belonging to our forefathers'. This book is about the traditional customs, stories, arts and ceremonial dances. All of these being represented by over two hundred drawings of artefacts, masks and ceremonial objects) (Keywords: Ethnology, Mabuiag, Murray, Nagir, Yam, Badu, Moa, Boigu, Saibai).
Book Code: M406 SOLD - now out of stock AU$70
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Detail of wrap - SESSERAE - The Works of Dennis Nona (wright35p 170/168 WRIG35)
Wright, Simon; Bruno David & Ian J. McNiven. SESSERAE. The Works of Dennis Nona. BNo.1-92095-240-3. First Edition, 2005 (b). Pp: 88; 210mm x 210mm; 0.32kg. num col, 1 map. Introduction, biographical detail, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Griffith Artworks & Griffith University, QLD 4111. (This publication was produced for the exhibition Sesserae: The Works of Dennis Nona which was presented at DELL Gallery, Queensland College of Arts between June and July 2005. The exhibition documents over 60 works and tells the story for a new group of works recently completed, for the first time. Bruno David and Ian J. McNiven provide an essay entitled ' The Sea, the Spirits and the Ancestors) (Keywords: Contemporary indigenous art, Australia, Torres Strait, stories, totems, traditional dancers, dugong hunting, Moa Island, Badu Island, Mabaig, Buka Island, linocuts, etchings, silkscreens, acrylic on paper).
Book Code: U254 AU$29
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