Northern Territory

  • Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    # 46993

    THOMSON, Donald F. (1901-1970)

    Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    Melbourne : Macmillan & Co., 1949. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered burgundy boards (pristine) in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed, front panel with tiny tear at top edge); front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Australian archaeologist Isabel McBryde, dated 1950; pp. [vi], 106, with numerous b/w photographic plates, and 2 folding …

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  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 46883

    FORD, Sue (1943-2009)

    Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …

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  • The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    # 47012

    MICHAELS, Eric

    The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed); pp. xxii, 159; a very good copy. “Report of the Fellowship to Assess the Impact of Television in Remote Aboriginal Communities”.

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  • Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

    # 47066

    HINKSON, Melinda

    Remembering the future : Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing

    Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press [AIATSIS], 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xi, 178, illustrated. ‘What can a collection of drawings reveal about their makers? Crayon drawings collected by anthropologists provide an illuminating prism through which to explore how the Warlpiri people of Central Australia have seen their place in the world and have been …

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    # 46812

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    [Melbourne : Methodist Home Mission Society, between 1920 and 1930]. Stiff envelope, 112 x 150 mm, recto with map of Australia showing areas where the Home Missions are active (in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western and northern Queensland), and slogans including ‘This Society seeks the Salvation of men, women and children irrespective of …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 47023

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (very well preserved), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, xx, 516 [2] pp, illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, bookseller’s label to pastedown, a very good copy.

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  • The native tribes of central Australia

    # 47027

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F.J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Second edition, with a preface by J.G. Frazer. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, pp xxiv, 672, illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams (3 folding). [3] folding colour and black and white maps, [4] folding colour plates, contents clean and sound, a very …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 47024

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The northern tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (edges lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, bookseller’s label to pastedown, pp xx, 672, illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; lightly foxed.

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  • The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    # 46972

    SPENCER, Baldwin Sir (1860-1929); GILLEN, F.J. (1855-1912)

    The Arunta : a study of a stone age people

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, green cloth covered boards (lightly flecked), spines with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, pp xxviii, 390; xvi, 391-646, illustrated with photographic plates (3 colour and 1 with colour overlay), folding map; a fine set of this landmark ethnological work.

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  • My people's life : an Aboriginal's own story

    # 46973

    MIRRITJI, Jack

    My people’s life : an Aboriginal’s own story

    Milingimbi, NT : Milingimbi Literature Centre, 1976. Small quarto (230 x 2100 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; pp. [4], 76, with a photographic portrait of the author; text in English; a fine copy. ‘Compilation of Mirritji’s writings including description of shelters; food; initiation and mortuary ceremonies; witchdoctors; contact with Macassans; myth of Wagilak sisters.  

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  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

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  • Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.

    # 46326

    GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI

    Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.

    Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1989. Folding card, 200 x 100 mm, work by Ginger Riley illustrated; gallery information printed inside and verso; good condition, aside from the fact that the card was once pinned to a noticeboard by the original invitee.

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  • The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    # 46108

    BASEDOW, Herbert (1881-1933)

    The Australian Aboriginal (first edition, with original prospectus)

    Adelaide : F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s purple cloth, upper board with gilt-stamped device depicting Wandjina spirit, spine lettered in gilt (a little sunned), colour frontispiece plate, pp xx, 422, illustrated with 55 photographic plates and line drawings in the text; edges slightly foxed, a very good copy. Loosely enclosed …

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  • The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines

    # 46113

    ALBRECHT, Rev. F. W.

    The natural food supply of the Australian Aborigines

    / by Rev. F. W. Albrecht, Hermannsburg. Adelaide, SA : Aborigines’ Friends’ Association, [1943]. First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers (original owner’s name to front), [10] pp, b/w photographic illustrations; a good copy. ‘Looks at the traditional food supplies of the Aboriginal people of the Western MacDonnell Ranges and adjoining districts including …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 46107

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (lightly flecked), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, in the rare original dustjacket (a few tape repairs to corners, light general wear), pp. xx, 516, [2], illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, contents clean and bright, a very …

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