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Australian Aboriginal decorative art / by Frederick D. McCarthy ; with a foreword by A.P. Elkin.
McCarthy, Frederick D. (Frederick David), 1905-1997. ; Australian Museum
Pamphlet
D709.011/MCC/REF:AUSMUS;MAIN
Sydney : Trustees of the Australian Museum,
1958.
Art, Aboriginal Australian. ; Decoration and ornament - Australia. ; Art - Painting - Bark. aiatsiss ; Art - Carving and engraving - Boab nuts. aiatsiss ; Art - Sand and ground design. aiatsiss ; Art - Sculpture - Tree carving. aiatsiss ; Art - Art motifs - Geometric. aiatsiss ; Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects. aiatsiss ; Art - Crafts - Baskets and basketmaking. aiatsiss ; Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Mortuary objects - Poles. aiatsiss ; Music - Instruments - Wind - Didjeridu. aiatsiss ; Plants - Stringybark. aiatsiss ; Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries. aiatsiss ; Material culture - Bark objects. aiatsiss ; Material culture - String and rope making. aiatsiss ; Technology - Utensils. aiatsiss ; Weapons - Boomerangs. aiatsiss ; Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks. aiatsiss ; Weapons - Shields. aiatsiss ; Weapons - Spears. aiatsiss ; Weapons - Spearthrowers. aiatsiss ; Arnhem Land (NT). aiatsisp ; East Kimberley area (North NT SD52-15). aiatsisp ; Northern Territory - Central NT. aiatsisp ; Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06). aiatsisp ; Western Australia - Central Australia (WA SE52, SF52, SG52). aiatsisp ; Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55). aiatsisp ; New South Wales (NSW). aiatsisp ; Gippsland / Eastern Victoria (E Vic SJ55). aiatsisp ; Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15). aiatsisp ; Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16). aiatsisp ; Queensland (Qld). aiatsisp ; Broome map area (WA West Kimberley SE51-06). aiatsisp ; Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52). aiatsisp
60 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. 60.
Descriptive booklet; Includes shields, boomerangs, clubs, carved trees (Eastern Aust.); designs on shields, N.E. Qld.; weapons, utensils, tjuringa, ceremonial regalia, ground drawings (central, N.T. & Kimberleys); Rangga & sacred objects, sculptures, bark paintings, mortuary art, weapons, twined baskets, pipes (Arnhem Land & adjacent islands); grave posts, baskets, weapons (Bathurst and Melville Islands); ceremonial boards and bullroarers, weapons, baobab nuts, pearl-shell phallocrypts (Western Australia); full description and meanings of incised designs.
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Descriptive booklet; Includes shields, boomerangs, clubs, carved trees (Eastern Aust.); designs on shields, N.E. Qld.; weapons, utensils, tjuringa, ceremonial regalia, ground drawings (central, N.T. & Kimberleys); Rangga & sacred objects, sculptures,
bark paintings, mortuary art, weapons, twined baskets, pipes (Arnhem Land & adjacent islands); grave posts, baskets, weapons (Bathurst and Melville Islands); ceremonial boards and bullroarers, weapons, baobab nuts, pearl-shell phallocrypts (Western Australia); full description and meanings of incised designs.
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Australian Aboriginal decorative art / by Frederick D. McCarthy ; with a foreword by A.P. Elkin.

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Year
Volume
Part
Location
Call no
Status
1958
5th ed.
Main Library Open Access
D709.011/MCC/MAIN
Available
Reference
D709.011/MCC/REF:AUSMUS
Available
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