Item #132950 Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien. Carl STREHLOW.
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien
Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien

Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien

Frankfurt, Joseph Baer & Co. [for the Städtischen Völker-Museum], 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915 and 1920.

Quarto, seven parts in five volumes (now bound as one book), with over 50 illustrations plus 11 plates (5 in colour), a folding map overprinted in red, 9 folding genealogical tables (accompanying Volume 4, Part 1, but now bound in at the rear of the book), and a smaller-format corrigenda list for Volume 3, Part 2 (bound in at the rear, immediately before the genealogical tables). Specific details for each volume are given below.

Later half calf and cloth (bound without the original wrappers) with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; calf a little rubbed, cloth lightly marked; the first volume has a light tidemark to the bottom right-hand corner of the first four leaves after the preliminaries, with attendant minor cockling gradually fading away; neat repair to a clean split along one fold to the map; short tears to five leaves expertly sealed; trifling signs of age and use; overall in excellent condition.

This acclaimed magnum opus on the myths, legends, material culture and customs of the Aranda and Loritja of Central Australia is very rare in any event, especially complete with the seventh part, publication of which was delayed by the First World War. This particular example is beyond compare: it comes from the personal collection of the author, Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow (1871-1922), missionary at Hermannsburg (Ntaria) from 1894 to 1922. He has signed the first page of one volume, and made in excess of 240 'Verbesserungen und Druckfehlerberichtigungen' ('Improvements and Misprints Reports') in ink to the first four parts (Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3, Parts 1 and 2). The corrigenda for Volume 1 are printed on page 84 of Volume 2; the corrigenda for Volume 2 are printed on pages 139-40 of Volume 3, Part 1; and the corrigenda for Volume 3, Part 2 appear on a smaller-format leaf (printed recto only) now bound in at the rear of this book. The corrigenda on these three printed lists have been marked in ink on the relevant pages by Strehlow himself (with a few additional ones). Significantly, however, there is no printed list present for some 85 corrections in Strehlow's hand to Volume 3, Part 1. Presumably notification of all corrigenda originated from the author himself, once he had the published volumes to hand. If it transpires that no printed list of corrigenda exists for Volume 3, Part 1, his corrections in this copy may be unique. There are no corrections to the last three parts (Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2, and Volume 5), published in Germany in 1913, 1915, and 1920 respectively; the outbreak of war may have some bearing on the matter.

The later ownership details of his son, the linguist Theodor George Henry (Ted) Strehlow (1908-1978), are written on the front flyleaf, along with the following note: 'The various parts constituting this book belonged to my father, the Rev. C. Strehlow, & bear his corrections. They were bound together in Jan. 1963'. Also bound in at the rear is a copy of another publication of the Städtischen Völker-Museum, 'Die australischen Bumerangs im Städtischen Völkermuseum' by Francis Carl Anton Sarg (1911). It is inscribed by him to 'Herrn C. Strehlow, mit freundl. Grüss. von Verfasser'.

Full details of the five volumes of 'Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien' are as follows:

[I. Teil] Mythen, Sagen und Märchen des Aranda-Stammes in Zentral-Australien. [xiv], 104 pages with 5 illustrations plus 8 plates (rectos only), each with a facing leaf of text (versos only) (and 4 of the plates are tinted, and from photographs).

[II. Teil] Mythen, Sagen und Märchen des Loritja-Stammes. Die Totemistischen Vorstellungen und die Tjurunga der Aranda und Loritja. [xii], 84, [4] (blank) pages with 7 illustrations plus a colour plate.

[III. Teil] Die Totemistischen Kulte der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme. [I. Abteilung] Allgemeine Einleitung und Die Totemistischen Kulte des Aranda-Stammes. xx, 140 pages with 15 illustrations plus a folding map (overprinted in red, 424 × 313 mm) and 2 plates (rectos only), each with a facing leaf of text (versos only).

[III. Teil] Die Totemistischen Kulte der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme. [II. Abteilung] Die Totemistischen Kulte des Loritja-Stammes. [viii], 76 pages (last blank) with 3 illustrations.

[IV. Teil] Das Soziale Leben der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme. I. Abteilung. viii, 103, [3] (blank) pages with 17 illustrations. (The 9 folding genealogical tables and the corrigenda list for Volume 3, Part 2 were originally loosely inserted in a front pocket in this volume.)

[IV. Teil] Das Soziale Leben der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme. II. Abteilung. [vi], 78, [2] (blank) pages with 4 illustrations.

[V. Teil] Die Materielle Kultur der Aranda und Loritja. Mit einem anhang: Erklärung der Eingeborenen-Namen. viii, 46, [2] (list of illustrations and plates in all volumes, verso blank) with a page of illustrations.

Provenance: Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow (1871-1922); by descent.

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