CRAWFORD, I.M.

The Art of the Wandjina. Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Kimberley, Western Australia

Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968.

Quarto, 144 pages with 128 illustrations (50 in colour).

Cloth lightly marked and a little sunned on the spine; front board a little bowed; faint marginal discolouration of the text block; an excellent copy lacking the dustwrapper.

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.

Provenance: the anthropologist Anthony Forge, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper ('Yale '69').

Item #143144

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