Indigenous Australians
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# 46074
HOFF, Jennifer
Tiwi graveposts
[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.
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# 46080
CROFT, Brenda
Tactility : two centuries of indigenous objects, textiles and fibre
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. “Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre provides a visual overwiev of the diversity of Indigenous three-dimensional and material objects made over a period of two centuries or more, ranging from traditional to transitional objects, through to recent conceptual and …
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# 46090
WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith
The fabrication of Aboriginal history. Volume One : Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847
Sydney, NSW, Macleay Press, 2002 (revised edition, 2003). Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 472, illustrations, light handling marks, else a fine copy. A controversial book, self described as ‘the most exhaustive analysis yet undertaken of relations between settlers and Aborigines from the time the British founded the colony in 1803’, which argues that the previous …
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# 46061
BUTLER, Sally (editor); SUTTON, Peter, et al.
Before Time Today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art. (Softcover edition)
St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2010. Quarto (290 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers with French flaps; 159, [1] pp, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy. Superb catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Before Time Today: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art, held at University of Queensland Art Museum, 2010. Contents: Art and …
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# 46045
NORTON, Frank
Aboriginal art
[Perth, W.A.] : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 66, illustrated. Documents works collected by Mountford from the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948; works from Western Australia; Port Keats; Bathurst & Melville Islands; Croker and Goulburn Islands, Oenpelli; Maningrida; Milingimbi & Elcho Islands, Yirrakala; and …
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# 46039
STANTON, John E.
Images of Aboriginal Australia
Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1988. Series: University of Western Australia Anthropology Research Museum Occasional Paper no. 2. Large octavo (250 x 175 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled (a little foxed along lower panel), pp 68, with b/w photographic illustrations throughout, maps; a fine copy. An important catalogue of the collection assembled by …
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 45845
LIEBIG.
[ABORIGINES] L’Australie
Belgium : Liebig, 1910. Complete set of 6 trade cards, each 73 x 113 mm, rectos with illustrations of Tasmanian Aborigines (including Truganini and William Lanne) and Mount Wellington; Coolgardie and the Kimberley; Queensland Aborigines; MacDonnell Ranges; Aboriginal tree burial; Blue Mountains; kangaroo; emu; Aboriginal hunter; Victorian vineyards, and Arunta tribesmen; versos with explanatory text …
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# 46007
SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)
Yuendumu Doors suite
Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …
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# 45951
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the occasion of …
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# 45950
RYAN, Judith
Remembering Barak
Melbourne., Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), illustrated card wrappers, pp. 64; illustrated in colour; essays by Judith Ryan and Carol Cooper; a pristine copy. Discussion and commemoration of the work and life of William Barak, leader and artist.
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# 45919
BATTY, Joyce
Namatjira : Wanderer between two worlds
Melbourne : Hodder & Stoughton, 1963. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 158, illustrated. Some pale foxing and edge wear to the dustjacket, a very good copy.
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# 45647
GRIBBLE, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), Reverend, 1868-1957
The problem of the Australian Aboriginal
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# 45756
WALSH, Grahame L.
Bradshaw art of the Kimberley
Toowong : Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications, 2000. Oblong quarto, faux crocodile skin with pictorial inlay, illustrated endpapers, pp. [vi]; x; [4], 464, extensively illustrated; a fine copy housed in the publisher’s original mailing carton. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw in 1891, the Bradshaw rock paintings of the Kimberley, or Gwion Gwion, have been …
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# 45824
KRECZMANSKI, Janusz B. and BIRNBERG, Margo
Aboriginal artists dictionary of biographies : Western Desert, Central Desert and Kimberley region
Marleston, S. Aust. : J.B. Publishing, 2004. Octavo, laminated boards in dustjacket (a little miscreased, laminate lifting slightly), pp. 446, illustrated. Foreword by Patrick Dodson.
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# 45827
DAALDER, Truus
Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa
Adelaide : Ethnic Art Press ; South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 420, illustrated in colour. As new copy, still sealed in shrinkwrap and in publisher’s carton. “A sumptuously produced book with an elaborate, informative text and 704 beautiful photographs of adornment from many parts of the world, ranging …