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 anthropologists Emeritus Professor R. M. and Dr C. H. Berndt during their fieldwork in various parts of Aboriginal Australia (primarily Arnhem Land, Central Australia and Western Australia), brought from the University of Sydney to the University of Western Australia, and now on permanent display at the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at UWA.

The catalogue describes and illustrates bark paintings, message boards, ornaments, weapons, a significant number of sculptural works, Papunya paintings, etc. The text is, as one would expect, scholarly and detailed.