# 48211

TENNANT, D.

In the track of the native.

$30.00 AUD

[Sydney] : T. Tennant, c. 1938. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers (handling creases and small edge chips), staple bound, 49 pp; an extended photographic essay focusing on the indigenous cultures of northern Australia (Arnhem Land and Far North Queensland) and New Guinea; b/w illustrations throughout reproducing photographs from the author’s own collection (some quite shocking in nature), accompanied by a supporting text that is based on first-hand encounters with “blacks”; contents clean and sound, a good copy.