Aboriginal English. A Cultural Study
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1996. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1996. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. More
Paris, Mouton, 1962. A discussion of attempts by Elcho Islanders to grapple with the problems of social and cultural change. More
Paris, Mouton & Co, 1962. A discussion of attempts by Elcho Islanders to grapple with the problems of social and cultural change. 'This monograph, in an abbreviated form, was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute Wellcome Medal for 1958)' (dedication page). More
West Melbourne, Nelson, 1976. An abridged version of 'Love Songs of Arnhem Land'; however, the plates are reproduced here in colour. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press (for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies), 1970 (first edition). More
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1964. Contributors include Ronald M. Berndt, A.P. Elkin, C.P. Mountford, Frederick D. McCarthy, T.G.H. Strehlow and J.A. Tuckson. More
Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1979. In the Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series. Another copy we have handled was one of only 300 copies; the half-title of this copy neither has the printed limitation details nor the number-stamp. More
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1954. More
East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 1970 (first American edition)/ 1970 (first published in Australia by Ure Smith). 'The Gunwinggu of Western Arnhem Land, one of the few matrilineally-oriented societies of Aboriginal Australia'. 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
Adelaide, RSSA, 1920. This issue contains numerous other papers, unrelated but of considerable interest, including some by eminent scientists such as Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson ('Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine', 13 pages), and Professor Frederic Wood Jones ('The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials', 13 pages..... More
Darwin, [Department of the Northern Territory], December 1973. Stated limited edition, with the label laid-down on the title-page; 'This publication is an interim report and contains some errors ... Any broader publication will be suitable amended'. The draft version of the report which was finally published in 1977. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968. The author was Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum. The book is based on information gathered by him on five expeditions through the Kimberley, accompanied by Aboriginal guides and a professional photographer. More
Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886, 1886, 1887 and 1887. Accounts of over 200 tribes (but primarily their vocabularies) that 'have been drawn up by the writer from replies sent by his correspondents to a series of questions circulated in print'. Contributors are named; well-known figures include Foelsche, Gason, Gillen..... More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 30, Social Anthropology Series Number 5. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1973. Australian Aboriginal Studies Number 30, Social Anthropology Series Number 5. More
Adelaide, Printed at the Hassell Press for the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1930. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More
Canberra, Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 2003. Terra Australis series, Number 19. More
Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1991. Provenance: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his ownership details and small name-label on the front endpaper. More