Myths of the Munkan
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1957.
Octavo, xxiv, 173 pages with illustrations (by James Wieneke and Madge Hodges) and 2 maps, plus 5 pages of plates (reproducing 7 photographs) and endpaper illustrations (itemised in the list of illustrations).
Cloth slightly sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy with the good dustwrapper (price-clipped and slightly worn and marked, with minor loss at the head and foot of the spine).
The book is based on the author's fieldwork carried out on Cape York Peninsula in 1927-31 and 1934. Provenance: Donald Finlay Fergusson Thomson (1901-1970), anthropologist and zoologist, with his signature ('Donald F. Thomson') at the head of the front free endpaper (see his entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for details of his important involvement with the Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia).
Item #145741
Price (AUD):
$500.00