Australian Aboriginal Portraits
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. Number 166 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1956. 'Wherever I travelled ... trees excited both my imagination and my desire to show their beauty to others. But they were elusive subjects, and so seldom grew where I could show their full beauty that, after half a lifetime among them, this book of tree..... More
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. The State Library of South Australia holds the original negative (PRG 1218/34/675G) in its Mountford-Sheard Collection, with the date given as 'Approximately 1937'. More
Mountford has been busy in the eastern states: 'Ayers Rock is in the hands of the publishers, the last volume of the Arnhem Land reports is almost complete, and I am going to get my M.A. Apparently the last examiner (undoubtedly Stanner) was much fairer in his criticisms than the..... More