The Ochre Warriors. Peramangk Culture and Rock Art in the Mount Lofty Ranges
Stepney, Axiom, 2012 (second impression)/ 2010.
Square quarto, 226 pages with 6 maps and approximately 180 illustrations (many of them colour plates with accompanying line illustrations of the related rock art).
Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper (lightly sunned about the spine).
'The Peramangk people existed in the Mount Lofty Ranges for at least 2,400 years. Their habitat ranged from the cool Eucalyptus forests of the Mount Lofty Summit region, often called the Tiers, to the warmer eastern ranges near the Murray Plains. The neighbouring Aboriginal groups feared them for their sorcery practices. Many often coloured their bodies with red-ochre hence, "The ochre daubed warriors" who were seen in the Adelaide region performing corroborees. Their territory extended from the south near Myponga, north towards Gawler, then east along the South Para River to the settlement called Towitta and southwards following the Bremer Escarpment to Strathalbyn' (from the dustwrapper blurb). The spine of the book and dustwrapper both give the title as 'The Ochre daubed Warriors'.
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