Item #131515 Aranda Traditions. T. G. H. STREHLOW.
Aranda Traditions
Aranda Traditions
Aranda Traditions

Aranda Traditions

Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947.

Octavo, xxii, 181 pages plus 10 plates, a folding table and a folding map.

Green cloth; flyleaves a little tanned; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine, lightly marked, and with trifling wear at the extremities.

Provenance: the anthropologist Roslyn Poignant, with a gift inscription to her from Helen Fenbury, dated 25 July 1964. Roslyn Poignant (1927-2019) 'studied history and anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her first job was with the Australian government's film unit, where she worked with the linguist Ted Strehlow editing his footage of Indigenous Australian ceremonies. Through friends at the film unit, Roslyn met the documentary photographer and cameraman Axel Poignant in 1950. They married in 1953 and forged a brilliant life-work partnership' (from her obituary in 'The Guardian', 17 December 2019).

Poignant has inscribed 'Helen Sheila Fenbury' in pencil at the foot of the flyleaf (presumably misremembering Fenbury's maiden name, Sheils, and misspelling it and using it as her middle name).

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