Indigenous Australians

  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history

    # 46897

    BARWICK, Diane; MACE, Michael; STANNAGE, Tom (eds.)

    Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history

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  • Reading Tiwi

    # 46970

    Summer Institute of Linguistics. Australian Aborigines Branch.

    Reading Tiwi

    Darwin, NT : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Australian Aborigines Branch, 1976. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; pp. [4], 10, with 12 printed language cards inside envelope at rear (as issued); a fine copy.

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  • The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    # 46898

    RAMSON, W. S.

    The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    Sydney, NSW : Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1964. Occasional Paper no. 3. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), printed blue wrappers sunned at edges), pp. 15, [1]; internally very good.

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  • A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    # 46885

    PLOMLEY, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)

    A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    Launceston, Tas. : N.J.B. Plomley in association with the Government of Tasmania, 1976. Large octavo (255 x 180 mm), cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (front panel a trifle worn at top edge); endpaper maps; xv, 486 pp, map; internally unmarked, an excellent copy. Plomley’s scholarly work on Tasmanian Aboriginal languages was compiled over twenty-five years …

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  • Ffarington's folio : South West Australia, 1843-1847

    # 46996

    DUFOUR, Gary

    Ffarington’s folio : South West Australia, 1843-1847

    Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, c1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 38, illustrated. Colonial paintings including indigenous subjects.

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  • [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    # 47031

    GREEN, Jenny

    [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    Written and illustrated by Jenny Green. [Utopia, N.T.] : Utopia Womens’ Batik Group, [1981]. Quarto, screenprinted wrappers (light edge wear and handling marks), pp. [25], illustrated with portraits of the artists and the landscape. ‘This publication was produced for an exhibition of batik from Utopia initially presented at the Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery in October, …

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  • Wanderings in wild Australia

    # 47028

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Wanderings in wild Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, original green cloth boards (lightly rubbed and marked), spines lettered in gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, light water stain to upper margin of second volume, volume I pp xxviii, 456; volume II pp xiv, 457-930, ii advertisements, illustrated with black and white …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 47023

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (very well preserved), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, xx, 516 [2] pp, illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, bookseller’s label to pastedown, a very good copy.

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  • Le mémorial : un chef-d'oeuvre d'art arborigène / The Memorial : a masterpiece of Aboriginal art. (Inscribed and signed copy)

    # 47007

    QUAILL, Avril; CARUANA, Wally; JENKINS, Susan; MUNDINE, Djon

    Le mémorial : un chef-d’oeuvre d’art arborigène / The Memorial : a masterpiece of Aboriginal art. (Inscribed and signed copy)

    Lausanne : Musée Olympique, 1999. Large quarto (300 x 240 mm), pictorial card with French flaps, pp. 144, colour illustrated; parallel text in French and English; a fine copy, the front free-endpaper inscribed and signed by the curators ‘Dear Sarah, this could not have happened without you. Best wishes, Wally [Caruana] / Cariños siempre, Gloria [Morales] …

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  • The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin's voyagers 1800-1804

    # 47000

    FORNASIERO, Jean et al.

    The Art of Science : Nicolas Baudin’s voyagers 1800-1804

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016 (2017 reprint). Quarto, 265 x 218 mm, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew …

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  • The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)

    # 46986

    MUNDINE, Djon

    The native born : objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land (softcover)

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining, [2000]. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 242, extensively illustrated, a little edge wear, a good copy. Focuses upon the character and background of the Ramingining Collection, formed by Djon Mundine — who also provides the major essay for this book. ‘This exhibition of …

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  • Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    # 46977

    PICKERING, Michael et al.

    Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …

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  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    # 46966

    SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

    Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …

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  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 46883

    FORD, Sue (1943-2009)

    Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …

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  • Cook's Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    # 46890

    HETHERINGTON, Michelle et al.

    Cook’s Pacific encounters. The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Gottingen.

    Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv; 110, illustrated. Ephemera enclosed. “Cook’s Pacific Encounters brings together objects from the Cook-Forster collection of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany, and materials related to Cook’s voyages held in Australian collections. The Cook-Forster collection comprises artefacts collected during the three Pacific voyages …

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