Indigenous Australians

# 34377

Anon. [after SAINSON, Louis Auguste de, 1800-1887]

An Aboriginal man of King George’s Sound, Western Australia. Circa 1835.

Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a horse and rider and pair of scales, 200 x 148 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Nouvelle Hollande’ at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘184’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – …

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# 35272

Hermannsburg celebrations, 6-8 September 2002.

The people of Hermannsburg extend a warm welcome to you to join us in celebrating 125 years since the Lutheran Missionaries first arrived in Hermannsburg; 20 years since our land was handed back to us as the traditional owners; 100 years since the birth of Albert Namatjira. [Hermannsburg, NT : Ntaria Council, 2002]. Octavo (210 …

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# 35122

REID, Terry (1942 - )

Mildura broadcast

Mildura, Victoria : Mildura Arts Centre, 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (with a photograph of a Pitjantjatjara child by David Moore), pp. 54, illustrated. Terry Reid is a Canadian born artist who studied at the Vancouver School of Art and later moved to Sydney, Australia. He participated in the influential Mildura Sculpture Triennials in the late …

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# 34527

WEBB, T. T.

The Aborigines of East Arnhem Land, Australia.

/ Ninth Methodist Laymen’s Memorial Lecture delivered by T.T. Webb, Wesley Church, Monday 26th March 1934. [Melbourne] : Methodist Laymen’s Missionary Movement, [1934]. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers, stapled; pp 39, map; scattered foxing.

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# 34046

Maker unknown.

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Histoire naturelle

[France : s.n., circa 1900]. Wooden box with hinged lid, 400 x 350 x 60 mm, original decorative paper covering with chromolithographed onlay to lid, with the title ‘Histoire naturelle‘ lettered in gold on red; the box contains 72 wooden puzzle cubes with chromolithographed paper surfaces, from which the child can potentially create a total …

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# 33879

van OOIJ, Jeltje (editor)

Blowing out the candles. Voices from the 1988 anti-bicentenary movement

Melbourne : Collective Effort, 1989. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [64], illustrated. Poems and artworks denouncing the Bicentenary Celebrations due to the dispossession of indigenous Australians from their land as a result of English colonisation. ‘These poems were written in protest to the ludicrous bicentenary celebrations held in Australia during 1988 …’ – introduction.

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# 33634

ANDREW, Brook and WALTER, Trent

Dual/Duel (yellow binding)

Brook Andrew & Trent Walter / and an interview with, and protocol guidance by, Maxine Briggs. Melbourne : Garru Editions, Brook Andrew Studio and Negative Press, 2021 (printed in 2020). Quarto, gilt-blocked yellow cloth, 366 x 278 mm, edges dyed black, red and yellow endpapers, unpaginated; photobook of images selected from the collection of the …

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# 33635

ANDREW, Brook and WALTER, Trent

Dual/Duel (red binding)

Brook Andrew & Trent Walter / and an interview with, and protocol guidance by, Maxine Briggs. Melbourne : Garru Editions, Brook Andrew Studio and Negative Press, 2021 (printed in 2020). Quarto, gilt-blocked red cloth, 366 x 278 mm, edges dyed black, red and yellow endpapers, unpaginated; photobook of images selected from the collection of the …

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# 32907

SINNETT, Mrs. Percy

Hunters and fishers : or, sketches of primitive races in the lands beyond the sea

London : Chapman and Hall, 1846. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, gilt edges, corners rubbed, pp. 146, one section cracked and slightly loose, four chromolithograph plates (including a ‘Kangaroo Hunt in New South Wales’), lightly marked, a good copy. Includes a twenty-page chapter on Australian Aborigines with discussion of their customs and habits. Specific mention is made …

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# 31717

EYLMANN, Erhard (1860-1926)

Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien. (Baldwin Spencer’s copy)

Berlin : Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1908. First edition. Thick small quarto (280 x 195 mm), publisher’s half black morocco over marbled papered boards (cornerpieces worn, boards silverfished), spine lettered and decorated in gilt (leather scuffed and worn along joints and spine ends), Baldwin Spencer’s copy, with his pencilled initials to front free-endpaper, pp. 28, …

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# 32776

[POSTER]. Circle path meander. Central Australian paintings from the Carnegie Collection

Collected in the 1970s by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Printed poster, 590 x 415 mm, introduction by Margaret Carnegie, essay by Geoffrey Bardon and catalogue verso. An important poster and catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Fine copy. Note: this is the only catalogue for the exhibition, …

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# 33117

Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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# 32777

[POSTER] Dot and circle

: a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia. RMIT Gallery [Melbourne], 16th April-3rd May 1985 : a loan exhibition from the Flinders University, South Australia. Screenprint process, printed in colour, from multiple stencils; sheet 760 x 550 mm. Rare. According to the exhibition curator, Jenny Zimmer, approximately 20 copies were printed.

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# 31254

RIEMER, Gustav Adolph (1842-1899)

[ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 74 mm each image) on orange card mount (85 x 175 mm); recto of mount with printed caption across lower margin: 342. Australien. King Georges-Sund. Wohnungen; in the left margin: Photographie von G. Riemer, Zahlmeister S.M.S. Hertha. Verlag von Gustav Lierach & Co, Berlin S W 48; and in …

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# 32085

KING, Henry (1855-1923)

Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

[Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘481. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo.’; verso with wet stamp of ‘Tost & Rohu, Furriers, Tanners, Naturalists, Taxidermists. Sydney, Aus.’; an exceptionally strong print with excellent clarity, but foxed and with some very light …

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# 31905

Photographer unknown.

Aboriginal men assembled for a public display. Brisbane, circa 1901.

Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; no photographer’s imprint; a very strong print with excellent tonal range and clarity, in fine condition. This possibly unique photograph shows a group of over twenty men dressed and painted for ceremony. Assembled in a single line that stretches across an …

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