Indigenous Australians

  • Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe

    # 46131

    RUHE, Edward L.

    Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe

    Rochester, MI : Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 32, illustrated. ‘Edward Ruhe (1923-1989) was a Professor of English at the University of Kansas who began collecting Aboriginal art in 1965 while in Australia as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. He built a collection of the highest quality by …

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  • Aboriginals in Australia today

    # 46103

    DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

    Aboriginals in Australia today

    Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 30 pp., colour illustrations, map; a very good copy.

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  • Tiwi graveposts

    # 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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  • Tactility : two centuries of indigenous objects, textiles and fibre

    # 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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  • Before Time Today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art. (Softcover edition)

    # 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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  • Aboriginal art

    # 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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  • Images of Aboriginal Australia

    # 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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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 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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  • [ABORIGINES]  L’Australie

    # 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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  • Yuendumu Doors suite

    # 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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  • Joseph Lycett : convict artist

    # 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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  • Remembering Barak

    # 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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  • Namatjira : Wanderer between two worlds

    # 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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  • The problem of the Australian Aboriginal

    # 45647

    GRIBBLE, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), Reverend, 1868-1957

    The problem of the Australian Aboriginal

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  • Bradshaw art of the Kimberley

    # 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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  • Aboriginal artists dictionary of biographies : Western Desert, Central Desert and Kimberley region

    # 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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