Item #133267 Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones. Norman B. TINDALE.
Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones
Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones

Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974 [first US edition]/ 1974.

Quarto, two parts, xii, 404 pages with 39 charts and illustrations, plus 92 [read 102] black and white and 46 colour plates, together with 4 large folding tribal boundaries maps in a separate plain slipcase. An errata slip is mounted on the verso of the title page (noting that all but one of the colour plates is 'printed in reverse as mirror images').

Synthetic cloth a little marked and rubbed; text volume with 15 mm strip missing from the head of the spine; minor signs of age and use; a very good set in the colour-pictorial slipcase (rubbed at the extremities and a little marked).

The 'bibliography and the information on a wide range of ecological, geographic and linguistic facts are particularly valuable and worthwhile ... an essential reference work' (Hill and Barlow). It was first published the same year by the Australian National University Press in Canberra. Provenance: pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), with his small ownership label on the front flyleaf (along with the signature of a previous owner).

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