BASEDOW, Herbert

Aboriginal Rock Carvings of Great Antiquity in South Australia. [Contained in] The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume XLIV

London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914.

Quarto, pages 195-211 with 2 illustrations plus 17 pages of plates (12 with captioned tissue overlays).

Contemporary buckram slightly rubbed, bumped, marked and sunned; mild signs of age and use; an excellent copy.

The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as performed by the Maori of New Zealand in Past Times (pages 127-162); Reverend W.G. IVENS: Native Stories from Ulawa (Contrariété Island, Solomon Islands) [text in Ulawa and English] (pages 163-194); and W.J. PERRY: The Orientation of the Dead in Indonesia (pages 281-294). Provenance: Dr Ian Keith McGill, Western Australian academic and antiquarian bookseller, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

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