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Australia in Oxford / edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards.
Morphy, Howard. ; Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- ; Pitt Rivers Museum
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D994/MOR/MAIN
Oxford [Eng.] : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford,
c1988.
Pitt Rivers Museum Catalogs. ; Pitt Rivers Museum. ; Pitt Rivers Museum. fast ; Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford. ram ; Australia - In art. ; Aboriginal Australians - Catalogs. ; Australia in art. ; Natural history - Catalogs and collections - Australia. ; Aboriginal Australians - History. ; Natural history - Australia - Catalogs and collections. ; Education, Higher - Australia - History. ; Anthropology - Australia. ; Aboriginal Australians. ; Aboriginal Australians. fast ; Aboriginal Australians - Exhibitions. ; Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions. aiatsiss ; Race relations - Representation - History. aiatsiss ; Weapons. aiatsiss ; Art. aiatsiss ; Anthropology. aiatsiss ; Australiens (aborigènes) - Expositions. ram ; Sciences naturelles - Australie - Expositions. ram ; Ethnological museums and collections. fast ; Natural history. fast ; Natural history - Australia - Exhibitions. ; Ethnological museums and collections - England - Oxford. ; Australia - In art - Catalogs. ; Australia - Discovery and exploration - Catalogs. ; Australia - Discovery and exploration. ; Australia - Discovery and exploration - French. ; England. aiatsisp ; Australie - Musées et collections - Angleterre - Oxford. ram ; Australia. fast ; England - Oxford. fast ; Exhibition catalogs. fast
96 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Exhibition catalog. One map on p. [2] of cover.
Includes bibliographies.
Papers explore early understandings of Australia as represented in the collections of the archives at Oxford; includes a chapter on the original Australians and the collections of Aboriginal art and artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
0902793225; 0141-2477;
https://library.australian.museum//fullRecord.jsp?recno=69156
Foreword / Sir Zelman Cowan -- William Dampier and his botanical collections / erena marner -- The peculiar natural history of New Holland /Steve Simpson -- The emerging shape / Elizabeth Edwards -- Sturt and his journeys /Catherine Hart -- Representation
and reality: science and the visual image / Elizabeth Edwards -- The original Australians and the evolution of anthropology / Howard Morphy -- 'The foundations of all good and noble principles': Oxonians and the Australian universities in the nineteenth century / Richard Symonds -- Australians at Oxford / John Legge.
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