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Idriess, Ion L. THE WILD MAN OF BADU. A Story of the Coral Sea. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1950. Pp: |
| | xvi, 232; 210mm x 135mm; 0.48kg. 19 b/w(pl), 3 maps. Acknowledgments, author's note. A good copy |
| | in chipped wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor water stain). Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1950. (The author |
| | has reconstructed the true story of a convict who escaped from Norfolk Island to become chief of Badu |
| | in the Torres Strait) (Keywords: Exploration, adventure, Australia, Torres Strait, Badu). |
| | Book Code: | E423 | AU | $30 |
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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 good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor buckle in top cover). |
| | 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: | K167 | AU | $22 |
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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. 0-85575-082-0 First Edition, 1978 (pb). Pp: xii, 340; 250mm x 180mm; 0.71kg. 19 |
| | b/w(pl), 9 fig, 5 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index. A very good |
| | paperback copy. Wrp: 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: | D344 | AU | $25 |
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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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Sharp, Nonie. FOOTPRINTS ALONG THE CAPE YORK SANDBEACHES. Seafaring Aboriginal peoples |
| | of the Peninsula and the Kaurareg. BNo. 0-85575-230-0. First Edition, 1992 (pb). Pp: xiv, 237, 240mm |
| | x 170mm; 0.62kg. 13 b/w, 4 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, index. A |
| | good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1992. (This book is about the |
| | seafaring people of Northern Cape York Peninsula and the Kaurareg, who inhabited the Prince of Wales |
| | group of islands.) (Keywords: Ethnohistory, Australia, Cape York, Torres Strait, Kaurareg). |
| | Book Code: | G151 | AU | $18 |
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Sharp, Nonie. STARS OF TAGAI. The Torres Strait Islanders. BNo. 0-85575-238-6. First Edition, 1993 |
| | (pb). Pp: xxii, 321; 240mm x 170mm; 0.86kg. 24 b/w, 7 fig, 2 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, |
| | abbreviations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. Aboriginal Studies |
| | Press, Canberra, 1993. (This book creates a picture of a unique sea culture rich in meaning and |
| | custom. The author's observations of islander life over the past fourteen years join with the life stories of |
| | islanders) (Keywords: mythology,indigenous peoples, Australia, Torres Strait, Magani, Malu, Meriam). |
| | Book Code: | H060 | AU | $26 |
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