Aboriginal Australia
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Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists
$65.00 Add to cartVivien Johnson
Alice Springs: IAD Press, 2008. -
Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the End of the World
$50.00 Add to cartColin Johnson
Melbourne: Hyland House, 1983.
Tasmania Aboriginal fiction. -
Remembering the Forgotten: A History of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland, 1887-1915
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First Edition.
20.5cm x 14.5cm. xii, 143 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
. Fine Condition. -
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
$80.00 Add to cartPeter Sutton
Melbourne: Viking, 1989. -
It’s Not the Money it’s the Land: Aboriginal Stockmen and the Equal Wages Case
$30.00 Add to cartBill Bunbury
North Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002. -
The Dark Side
$20.00 Add to cartCherie Imlah
Goolmangar: Jiggi Publishing, 1990. -
Black Man Coming
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First Edition.
23cm x 16cm. viii, 32 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Poetry by Bundjalung activist and poet Gerry Bostock (1942-2014). Illustrated by Ngarrindjeri artist Trevor Nickolls (1949-2012).
Minor foxing and creasing to wrappers. Staples rusted. Very Good Condition. -
Guwanyi: Stories of the Redfern Aboriginal Community
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First Edition.
21cm x 14.5cm. [36] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Very minor rubbing to spine. Near Fine Condition. -
Art in the Time of Colony
$100.00 Add to cartKhadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.
The author “draws on contemporary Australian Aboriginal art to challenge historical bind spots and re-think stuffy conventions of art criticism.” (from jacket flap). Part of the series: Empires and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000. -
Kamilaroi and Kurnai: Group-Marriage and Relationship, and Marriage by Elopement
$30.00 Add to cartLorimer Fison; A. W. Howitt
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1991.
Drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian Aborigines also the Kurnai Tribe Their customs in Peace and War. -
The Storm Lantern’s Travels: Missionary Work Amongst Australian Aborigines
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. viii, 213 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
As told by Dora Wakerley who served with United Aborigines Mission of Australia.
Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. Small chips and tears to shelf worn jacket, foxing to verso. Good Condition. -
The Aboriginal Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
$100.00 Add to cartBaldwin Spencer; John Mulvaney
Melbourne: Viking O’Neil, 1987. -
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori : Dulka Warngiid / Land of All
$80.00 Add to cartSally Gabori
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2016.
“This beautifully illustrated publication will feature some 50 works drawn from public and private collections in an exhibition surveying the life and work of the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (Sally Gabori) c.1924-2015, the distinguished senior Kaiadilt woman artist from Bentinck Island in the Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria.” -
Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania
$60.00 Add to cartAmanda Jane Reynolds
Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2006. -
On The Banks of the Barambah: A History of Cherbourg from the Ration Shed Museum
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First Edition.
28cm x 22cm. 96 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One: Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-1847
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Third Printing.
24cm x 17cm. [vi], 472 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
The third printing, with corrections and revisions.
Very slightly cocked. Minor foxing to edges and jacket verso. Very Good Condition. -
The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (2 Volumes)
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First Edition.
28cm x 22cm. xxxiii, ix, 1340 pages, 2 volumes colour illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jackets, in slipcase.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land
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Revised Edition.
20cm x 13cm. [viii]. 311 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Some foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
Michael Nelson Jagamara: From the Studio, Experimental & Collaborative Works, 1996-2008
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First Edition. Signed by Author
22.5cm x 24cm. 52 pages (including wrappers), colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Exhibition catalogue. This copy signed by Jagamara on the wrappers lower panel
Minor shelf wear and tanning. Near Fine Condition. -
Jagera
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 17cm. [vi], 98, [1] pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Sixth volume of poetry by Indigenous Australian poet Lionel Fogarty.
Moderate shelf wear. Good Condition. -
An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall
$50.00 Add to cartSean Ulm; Ian Lilley
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2006. -
The Kalkadoons: A Study of an Aboriginal Tribe on the Queensland Frontier
$250.00 Add to cartRobert E. M. Armstrong
Brisbane: William Brooks, No date.
A resource book for teachers, students and readers of Australian history. “The Kalkadoon (Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. Their forefather tribe has been called the Elite of the Aboriginal warriors of Queensland. In 1884 they were massacred at Battle Mountain by settlers and police.” (from Kalkadoon PBC website) This book shows that the Kalkadoon did not submissively accept the takeover of their land. -
Methods and Materials for Recording Australian Languages
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First Edition.
12cm x 15.5cm. vi, 68 pages, [68] interleaved blanks. Lettered wrappers.
Field guide for fieldwork with Aboriginal language by Arthur Capell. A. P. Elkin, the Australian anthropologist’s copy, with his signature, The University of Sydney, to the wrappers upper panel.
Minor creasing. Very Good Condition. -
Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development
$150.00 Add to cartR. M. W. Dixon
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. -
Notes on Some Queensland Languages
$100.00 Add to cartNils M. Holmer
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1988.
Fieldwork notes on indigenous languages of Queensland, New Guinea, and Torres Strait: Mer, Saibai, Gugu-Bujun and related languages, Kantyu and Koko-Yalandji, Gangulida, Bundjil and Wandji, Garwa, Punthamara. -
A Descriptive Study of the Djingili Language
$55.00 Add to cartNeil Chadwick
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. -
Narratives from the North-West of Western Australia in the Ngarluma and Jindjiparndi Languages (3 Volumes)
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First Edition.
26cm x 20cm. 3 volumes. Illustrated wrappers.
60 narratives in language with translations, notes, glossary, and index.
Some discolouration, rubbing, and light creasing to wrappers of volume 1, minor to vols. 2 and 3. Very Good Condition. -
Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
$150.00 Add to cartMargo Neale; Emily Kngwarreye
Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. -
Australia’s Greatest Rock Art
$2,000.00 Add to cartGrahame L. Walsh
Bathurst: E. J. Brill / Robert Brown and Associates, 1988.
Published in association with Queensland Parks and Wildlife this book is the most comprehensive documentation of Australian rock art. The deluxe issue of 100 signed and numbered copies in leather with slipcase, this copy further inscribed by Walsh and with the prospectus laid in. -
Food Supply and Preparation
$30.00 Add to cartDepartment of Community Services
Brisbane: Department of Community Services, 1985.
A booklet on Aboriginal food practices, primarily based on Walter Roth’s North Queensland Ethnography No. 3.