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Aboriginal Australian String Figures
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2006.Davidson collected these figures, mainly in WA, in the 1930s. Some 112 are illustrated and their creation described. This is a native art form now lost due to the inroads of TV- videos etc. a microcosm of our own cultural losses. Facsimile edition of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 84, No. 6, 1941.
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Aboriginal Ethnographica
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Sutherland Davidson
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2011.Reproduces the majority of Davidsons Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953 in facsimile. Topics covered include Aboriginal Axes, Spears, Clubs, Canoes, Baskets, Boomerangs, Petroglyphs, Key Designs, Waningas, Churingas, Fire, Footwear and Death.
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Aboriginal Sign Language
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the chapter ‘The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language’ and 9 related plates from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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Ethno-Pornography: Male and Female Aboriginal Initiation and Customs
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2020.An enlarged facsimile of the ethno-pornography chapter and plate from Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) was a physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation.
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The Queensland Aborigines (3 Volumes)
AU$240.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter E. Roth
Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984.3 volumes collecting in facsimile various works of Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), physician, anthropologist, and the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals. As an administrator Roth worked tirelessly for the betterment of aboriginal rights against colonial and political forces, though controversy, including “payment” to take photographs of sexual positions for anthropological reasons, hounded him to resignation. Volume 1 contains Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, and includes the ethno-pornographical plate reproduced in colour. Volume 2 contains Bulletins 1-8 of North Queensland Ethnography from The Home Secretary’s Department, Brisbane, 1901-1908. Volume 3 contains Bulletins 9-18 of North Queensland Ethnography, Records of the Australian Museum Sydney, 1907-1910. In total, over 1,500 photographs, line drawings, and maps in three volumes.
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After the Tent Embassy: Images of Aboriginal History in Black and White Photographs
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcia Langton
[Sydney]: Valadon Publishing, 1983.Photographic research by Wes Stacey and Narelle Perroux. Foreword by Wandjuk Marika. “This is a book for Aboriginal people in all parts of Australia, for black people, to tell them what’s been happening in the past and where it started…We are saying very strongly, please recognise Aboriginal people in Australia…This book is published for Aboriginal People, my people, and I strongly recommend it to you to help us. (from foreword) Contains photographs of Aboriginal history from people in chains and on the missions to photographs of meetings and protests for land rights.
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Kathleen Petyarre: Genius of Place
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Petyarre; Christine Nicholls; Ian North
Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001. -
Dancing Up Country: The Art of Dorothy Napangardi
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDorothy Napangardi
Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. -
Emily Kngwarreye Paintings
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily Kngwarreye
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1998.Scarce monograph of Anmatyerre painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996). With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt, and Janet Holt.
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Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRonald M. Berndt
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. -
Aboriginal Man in Australia: Essays in Honour of Emeritus Professor A. P. Elkin
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. M. Berndt; C. H. Berndt
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965. -
Handbook of Australian Languages Volume I
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. M. W. Dixon; Barry J. Blake
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1979. -
The Languages of Australia
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. M. W. Dixon
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. -
Thathilgaw Emeret Lu: A Handbook of Traditional Torres Strait Islands Material Culture
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLindsay Wilson
Brisbane: Department of Education, Queensland, 1988. -
Kerkar Lu: Contemporary Artefacts of the Torres Strait Islanders
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLindsay Wilson
Brisbane: Department of Education, Queensland, 1993. -
Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1996.Originally published as An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of Natives of the Pacific Islands. Second Edition expanded and edited by Bruce L. Miller with additional maps and portraits of Pacific Island natives. One of 999 unnumbered copies.
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An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of the Natives of the Pacific Islands
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
London: The Holland Press, 1969.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Facsimile Edition of the complete Three Series of the very limited edition published by Edge-Partington and Heape 1890-98.
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Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, Third Series: An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress &c., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands.
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Edge-Partington; Charles Heape
Manchester: Lithographed by Palmer Howe & Co., 1898.Drawn and Described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. One of 175 numbered copies initialed by Edge-Partington and Heape. This copy with the 7 leaves of additional notes for all 3 parts.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Redbank: Rodney Liddell, 2004.The first printing of the third edition of Liddell’s telling of the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, together with his expanded and controversial chapters on the Aboriginal invasion of Australia. This copy with the three government petitions at the rear.
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Cape York: The Savage Frontier
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney Liddell
Dubbo: Rodney Liddell, 1991.The self published first edition telling the stories of the castaway Barbara Thompson, the lost expedition of Edmund Kennedy, and the settling of Cape York by Frank Jardine, without many of the controversial chapters of the later editions. This copy inscribed by the author to Margaret Lawrie, collector of stories and mythologies of the Torres Strait, also with a 1996 postcard from the author addressed to Lawrie laid in.