The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1973. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts in association with Ure Smith, 1973. More
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
Sydney, New Holland, 1999. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. More
Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1993 [first Canadian edition]/ 1993. One of the Miegunyah Press series, first published by Melbourne University Press earlier the same year. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some..... More
Sydney, The Church Missionary Society, September 1963 (revised edition). Number 2 in the Field Facts series of booklets. More
London, Wm Heinemann Medical Books Ltd, 1946. With a later ink gift inscription to 'Donald', being eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO, MC (1927-2018). Not least, occasional Australian aboriginal references. More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1930. The author was 'Protector of Aborigines of Queensland for sixteen years and Protector of Aborigines, Western Australia, sixteen years' (from the title page). More
Perth, Imperial Printing Company, 1933. The author wrote from personal experience dating back to the 1860s. Provenance: 'Mrs W.A. Norman | Mitcham' is written in ink on the first (blank) page; the Normans had a lengthy connection with Mitcham, and William Ashley Norman compiled the history of the suburb, published..... More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development Inc./ Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979 (revised)/ 1974. An introduction to kinship and relationship terminology. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development Inc./ Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979 (revised)/ 1974. An introduction to kinship and relationship terminology. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1977 (second edition)/ 1974. An addendum, the entirety of page 9, is loosely inserted. More
Alice Springs, Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1992 (third edition)/ 1977 (second edition)/ 1974. More
[Darwin, Government Printer, 1970 (reprint)/ 1968]. 'The Rock and the area around it is rich in Aboriginal mythology and it is fitting that Bill Harney should have collected and recorded the legends surrounding the sites and the prominent features of the Rock itself'. Harney was the 'Keeper' of the Rock..... More
Melbourne, J.M. Dent Pty Limited, 1988. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1984. The front cover illustration reproduces a photographic portrait of a young Indigenous lad. The subject is unidentified and the photographer is uncredited, but we know it to be a portrait from the decade 1900s by the Adelaide photographer Charles Scott (1878-1928) of a boy from..... More
Sydney, John Wiley and Sons Australasia Pty Ltd, 1973. 'The studies included are those that have made significant contributions to the understanding of Aboriginal Australians, not as objects of sympathy or fascination, but as human beings who have developed in a different cultural framework' (from the introduction). More
Perth, A.F. Lovell for the Trustees of the Western Australian Museum, 1975. Number 6 in the Western Australian Museum Information series. More
Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More
Cambridge, The Prehistoric Society, 1965. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1984 [facsimile edition]/ 1897 to 1910. Volume 1 is a reprint of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines' (1897); Volume 2 is a reprint of the separately-issued North Queensland Ethnography Bulletins 1-8 (1901-1908) and Volume 3 is a reprint of Bulletins 9-18, first published in the..... More
Sydney, Australian Museum, 1993, 1996 and 2003. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Numbers 10, 12 and 17. Dr Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), 'physician, anthropologist and protector of Aborigines [the first northern protector of Aboriginals] ... published eighteen ethnographic bulletins, based on his official reports, on various aspects of Aboriginal..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition]. Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen at the time; he died in an air..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 [first and only edition]. Lauri Sheard accompanied Charles Mountford as his assistant on an Adelaide University Field Expedition to Ernabella, the Musgraves, Mann Ranges, Ayers Rock and Mt Olga in June-October 1940. He was eighteen at the time; he died in an air..... More
Adelaide, [Government Printer], December 1995. More