Australia’s Greatest Rock Art

Bathurst: E.J. Brill – Robert Brown & Associates (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1988. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 312, extensively illustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper, erased pencil price to half-title. A very good copy.

‘Summary: Sites and subjects of rock paintings and rock engravings; different rock art techniques – stencil art, blown dot, engraved, freehand, beeswax, ochre imprint, scratched, abraded line, com posite stencil, dry pigment drawing, finger marking, positive hand prints; Wandjinas; Lightening Brothers; Rainbow serpent; Namarakah Spirit Women; x-ray style animals and fish; desert art; burial art; painted anthropomorphs.’ – Trove