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ABORIGINAL
AUSTRALIANS - THEIR JOURNEY. S/C - A4
size (Jean A. Ellis) 1st Edition 2007. 190pp. In 1788 the British
Government began a convict settlement on the Eastern Coast of
the ancient continent - now known as Australia. At this point in
time there were more than 500,000 Aboriginal people, spread
across this land. They lived in more than 300 scattered groups.
Between them. they spoke more than 250 separate languages. But -
Who were these people? How long had they occupied "The
Great South Land" ? What is known of their tribal
lifestyle? What happened after the British arrived? What is
happening now? Their
long journey is clearly revealed in this book. Each section has
been well researched. It is real. It is true. Illustrated. Mint
condition. Normally $40.00. Special. |
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ABORIGINAL BARK
PAINTINGS. H/C +
Damaged D/W (Robert Edwards & Bruce
Guerin) 1st Edition 1969. 32pp. This book
portrays a comprehensive collection of Aboriginal bark paintings
in full colour together with a fully illustrated description of
the manner in which they were prepared. Good condition |
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ABORIGINAL BARK
PAINTINGS. H/C
(Robert Edwards & Bruce Guerin) Reprint August 1974.
32pp .Good condition |
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ABORIGINAL BARK
PAINTINGS. H/C
(Robert Edwards & Bruce Guerin)
Reprint July 1976. 32pp. Good condition |
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ABORIGINAL LEGENDS: Animal
Tales. Paperback
(Compiled by: A. W. Reed) Reprint 1994. 141pp.
A selection of Aboriginal legends dealing with the origin of
different forms of animal life. The legends come from a variety
of tribes from all parts of the continent. Ex lib
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ABORIGINAL
PERTH. S/C
(Daisy Bates, Edited by: P.J. Bridge) 1992.
192pp. This is a collection of newspaper articles
and other sources on her writings on the Bibbulmun people of the
South West of Western Australia.
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ABORIGINAL PLACE
NAMES and their meanings.
Paperback (Compiled by: A. W. Reed)
Reprint 1976. 144pp. A comprehensive selection of
their names and their derivations from all parts of Australia.
The book includes a section giving English words and their
Aboriginal translations, as well as an appendix of present day
names with earlier Aboriginal names.
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ABORIGINAL
STORIES OF AUSTRALIA.
Paperback (Compiled by: A. W. Reed.
Illustrated by: Roger Hart) 1st Edition 1980. 119pp. This
is a collection of authentic Aboriginal myths and legends that
retain, as much as possible, the full impacts and strengths of
their original traditional tellings.
Good condition with some loose pages reglued. Special. |
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ABORIGINAL WORDS
OF AUSTRALIA.
Paperback (Compiled by: A. W. Reed.
Illustrated by: E. H. Papps) Reprint 1994. 144pp.
This is a collection of words used by Aboriginal tribes with
their meanings, as well as an English - Aboriginal section which
is useful for those who wish to choose names for houses and
boats etc. Mint condition. |
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ABORIGINAL WORDS
OF AUSTRALIA.
Paperback (Compiled by: A. W. Reed. Illustrated by: E. H.
Papps) Reprint 1994. 144pp. Ex lib. Good condition. |
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ADAM IN OCHRE:
Inside Aboriginal Australia.
H/C + Damaged D/W (Colin Simpson)
3rd Edition 1954. 221pp. This was the first book to tell
of the fascinating searches and discoveries of the Australian -
American Arnhem Land Expedition.
It was, at the time of publication, acclaimed to be the
most brilliantly readable book on the Australian Aborigines.
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ADAM IN OCHRE:
Inside Aboriginal Australia.
H/C (Colin
Simpson) 3rd Edition
1954. 221pp. Good to reasonable condition. Reading
copy. Special. |
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ADAM IN OCHRE:
Inside Aboriginal Australia.
H/C (Colin
Simpson) 1st Edition
1954. 221pp. Slightly damaged cover with a couple of
water-stained pages. Special. |
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ADAM IN OCHRE: Inside Aboriginal
Australia. H/C +
Damaged D/W (Colin Simpson)
5th Edition 1962. 221pp. Ex lib. Reading copy. Special.
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ALONG THE SUNSHINE COAST:
Dreamtime to Now. S/C
(Alf Wood. Illustrated by: Terry St. Ledger) Revised
Edition 1988. 122pp. This book provides a "mountain"
of information and legend on the Sunshine Coast area and a
legendary history of the Glass House Mountains north of
Brisbane, Queensland. The origin of the romantic names of Maroochy,
Mooloolaba, Noosa, Buderim, Caloundra, Coolum, Peregian and
Mudjimba - the exploits of the Rainbow Man and the stories of
the Bunya Feast, Brolga the dancer and Yirin the Crab are all
told in an exciting way. Mint condition. |
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AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE.
Booklet (Australian National
Commission for UNESCO. Reprint 1973. 48pp. This book
provides a general insight to the Australian Aborigines, its
people, its culture, dwellings, ceremonies, magic and medicine,
dress, hunting, artefacts, cave and bark paintings and more.
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AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINAL WORDS: 300 Examples and their meanings.
S/C (H. M. Cooper, South
Australian Museum) 4th
Edition, revised and enlarged, 1962. 41pp. This vast list
provides the reader with many names that can be used to name
"all sorts of things". Very good condition.
This book is now unobtainable and is out of print. |
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AUSTRALIAN LEGENDARY TALES.
H/C + D/W (Collected by: K.
Langloh Parker. Selected & Edited by: H. Drake-Brockman.
Illustrated by: Elizabeth Durack) Reprint 1974. This selection,
taken in part from the author's five published volumes provides
the reader with the Aboriginal ways of life and thought. The
stories, written down as the words fell from the lips of the
tribal storytellers, these tales possess liveliness, intimacy,
and warmth, and reveal the child-like simplicity and poetic
quality of the Aboriginal mind. Good condition. |
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AUSTRALIAN LEGENDARY TALES.
H/C (Collected by: K. Langloh
Parker. Selected & Edited by: H. Drake-Brockman. Illustrated
by: Elizabeth Durack) Reprint 1974. Good condition. |
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BROWN MEN AND RED SAND:
Journeyings in Wild Australia.
S/C (Charles P. Mountford)
Reprint 1981. 192pp. This book has come to be recognised as one
of the most informative and fascinating books ever written about
Australian Aborigines and their environment. It is at once an
adventure and travel story, a record of scientific discovery,
and the author's expression of his affection and respect for a
remarkable people. Good condition. |
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HIDDEN STORIES:
Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave
Hill Stations. S/C (Deborah
Bird Rose) 1st Edition 1991. 268pp.
In this book you will find stories of massacres and
murders, of working life on cattle stations, of friendships and
foes, of bureaucratic machinations and the individual struggles
of Aboriginal Australians. There are elements to these stories
which project them across time and space, culture and
experience. They speak of exploitation and cruelty, but they
also contain a message of hope. It is an Aboriginal message -
that we should manage our differences to our mutual benefit
rather than to our destruction. Ex lib. Good condition. |
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THE ABORIGINAL. H/C +
D/W (Douglas Lockwood) 4th Impression, June 1964. 240pp. This is
a fascinating account based at Roper River, Northern Territory
and the life of a tribal Aboriginal called Waipuldanya and his
attempt to live a "double life". He left his tribal
territory often to work as a medical assistant. His struggle to
combine the black and white cultures is heartbreaking. Only once
does he really combine the two successfully when he goes on
"walkabout" treating other Aborigines with his
newly-learnt "whitefella" medicine. He also finds it
hard to combine his ancient tribal laws with the whiteman's
laws. Missionaries taught him Christianity, which he says he
believes in, but he still believes in the ancient tribal gods.
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MACQUARIE ABORIGINAL
NAMING BOOK.
S/C
(No author. Macquarie Library)
1st Edition 1996. 164pp. This book is an Australian Guide
to naming your home or boat (or whatever else you would like
name). Very good condition. |
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MAN IN
PERSPECTIVE: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Booklet
(K. A. Sutcliffe, O.I.C., Department of Aboriginal &
Islanders Advancement of Queensland, Archaeology Branch) circa
1980. 24pp. This book provides a basic history of the Aboriginal
way of life over the years. Good condition. |
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ORIGINS AND
CULTURE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES (Queensland
Museum - Booklet No. 2).
Booklet (E.
B. V. Crosby & J. C. Hodge - Queensland Museum)
Revised Edition 1969. 14pp. An outline of some current
ideas about the origin of Australia's indigenous people and how
they lived before the coming of the white man. Good condition. |
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OUR CHANNEL COUNTRY .
(A.M. Duncan-Kemp) Please
see our QUEENSLAND
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STEADFAST
ENDEAVOUR. S/C
(G.J. Wilson) 1995. 155pp.
A chronicle of Church interaction with the Pilbara
Aboriginal Society 1945 - 1995.
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THE ABORIGINAL
RELICS OF QUEENSLAND. Booklet
(Department of Aboriginal and islanders Advancement,
Queensland) 1977.
12pp. Describes the various relics such as: Rock paintings, Rock
engravings, Bora and Ceremonial grounds, Stone arrangements and
Carved trees. Living sites such as Middens, Native wells and
Grinding grooves. Sources of raw materials such as Quarries,
Container trees and Canoe trees. Good condition. |
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THE ABORIGINES OF
ARNHEM LAND. H/C + D/W
(Keith Cole) 1st Edition 1979.
298pp. This
book deals with the characteristics of the Aborigines as well
the author's descriptions of Arnhem Land, a 'natural paradise'
make enchanting reading. The birds, the animals, the bush and
the rivers come alive in his story. Good condition. (This book
is normally catalogued at around $40.00) |
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THE ABORIGINES OF
AUSTRALIA.
H/C
(Roderick J. Flanagan)
First published in 1888.
Facsimile Edition Limited to
1500 copies. 1988. 167pp.
This is one of the few books published in the 1800's on
the Australian Aborigines, their origins, tribes, language,
music, hunting grounds, councils, beliefs, funerals and
massacres and more. Mint
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THE ABORIGINES OF
QUEENSLAND (Queensland Museum - Booklet No. 3).
S/C
Booklet (E.
B.V. Crosby & J. C. Hodge. Illustrations by: M. E. McKenzie.
Queensland Museum) Revised
Edition 1969. 20pp. An outline of the history of Aborigines and
their culture in Queensland, both past and present.
Good condition. |
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THE AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINES. S/C
(Department of Territories, Canberra) 1st Edition July 1967.
111pp. This book was one of the first of its type published to
present in one volume a record of progress in Aboriginal welfare
throughout Australia. It also shows to dispel many of the
prevalent misunderstandings about the Australian Aborigines and
their place in Australian society and what the Governments are
doing in the terms of expenditure for the welfare of the
Aborigines. Illustrated. Very informative. Good condition. |
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THE AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINES: How to Understand Them. H/C
(A. P. Elkin) 3rd
Edition Reprint 1961. 349pp.
This ever popular book provides the reader to understand the
Aboriginal tribal life, social organisation, law, belief, ritual
and philosophy. This large volume covers all the these and a lot
more. Cover marked but the pages are in very good condition.
Black & white photographs. Special. |
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THE AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINES: How to Understand Them. H/C
+ Damaged D/W (A.
P. Elkin) 4th
Edition 1964. 393pp.
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THE BOOMERANG
BOOK OF LEGENDARY TALES. H/C + damaged
D/W (Chose, edited and arranged by: Enid Moodie Heddle.
Illustrations/decorations by: Nancy Parker. 1st Edition 1957.
150pp. This book contains a selection of lively tales dealing
with the myths of natural phenomena, with legends of physical
and mental characteristics, of magic changeovers and the drawing
of the long-bow, it covers the folk-lore of the Australian
Aborigines as retold by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker and Roland
Robinson, and includes legendary tales of white men in Australia
by Lance Skuthorpe and Dal Stivens alongside tales from New
Guinea, Borneo, Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands and Micronesia.
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THE BROADBEACH
ABORIGINAL BURIAL GROUND: An Archaeological Analysis. H/C
+ D/W (Laila Haglund) 1st Edition 1976. This burial ground on
Queensland's Gold Coast was discovered accidently and due to the
fragile state of this burial ground, action had to be taken
immediately to preserve it from further deterioration took over
4 years to complete. This book describes in detail all material
recovered including skeletal material which is described from an
archaeological point of view. remains of 150 persons were excavated
which had been buried in the last 1000 years. This book is
profusely illustrated and details are given also of the
techniques used during the excavation. Good condition.
Scarce. |
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THE DREAMING OF
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA: A large collection of inspirational
stories. S/C
- A4 size (Edited by: Jean A. Ellis) 1st Edition 2006. 148pp.
People in every corner of the world and through every era of
time have wondered much about the mysteries of life. Traditional
Aboriginal people in their many separate groups, found answers
and guidance in the intricate, in-depth, varied and creative
Teachings which came from their Dreaming. The dreaming was both
lore and law to them and remains so for many contemporary
Aboriginal people as well. Most dreaming Stories whether they
were sacred or non-sacred in their origin were used as teaching
tools. Generally speaking, through them, we learn that actions
which were thoughtful or wise, were rewarded, while acts of
treachery or foolishness were punished. This book presents the
largest, single collection of Dreaming Stories ever published.
The many illustrations are fascinating and quite unique - each
was created by an Aboriginal artist. These stories were gathered
from many separate areas, each of which is clearly revealed.
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THE FIRST
AUSTRALIANS: Prehistory 1810 (Seeing History #1).
H/C
+ D/W (K. M. Adams. Illustrated by: Genevieve Melrose) Reprint
1972. 98pp. This book describes pictorially, the discovery,
occupation, settlement and development that transformed a land,
unknown to man before the last Ice Age, into a well established
colony. Through hundreds of authentic and accurate
illustrations, contemporary charts, documents, pictures, maps
and a lucid and readable text, Australia comes to life in this
book. Ideal for the young historian. Good condition. |
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THE PEOPLE IN
BETWEEN: The Pitantjatjara People of Ernabella. H/C
+ D/W (Winifred
Hillard) 1st Edition 1968. 253pp.
The author who took up a position as a craft leader at
the Ernabella Mission in the Musgrave Ranges near the South
Australia & Northern Territory border found that the
Aboriginal people who lived there were a highly intelligent
people with a richly ceremonial and ethical tribal life. She
discusses in fascinating detail the language, exogamous rules,
morality, hunting, food gathering, cooking, child care and
burial customs with special reference to the craft skills of the
people have mastered and the artistic sensibility they display,
fine examples which are reproduced in this book in full colour.
Signed by author. Scarce. Good
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THE QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES: 3 Volumes.
H/C (W.E. Roth) 873pp. In three (3) magnificent volumes, a facsimile of Roth's
1897 - 1910 publications. Some of the most significant ethnographic material ever published
on the Australian Aborigines. This limited edition with over
1500 photos, line drawings
and maps is essential for all interested in aboriginal culture.
(New) |
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THE QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES: 3 Volumes.
S/C (Soft Cover
Edition) (W.E. Roth) 873pp.
(New) |
150.00
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THURSDAY ISLAND
NURSE. H/C
+ D/W (Elizabeth Burchill) 1st Edition 1972. 139pp. The
experiences of the author's nursing career on the romantic
Torres Straits Islands situated
between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Good condition. |
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WE,
THE ABORIGINES.
H/C + Damaged D/W
(Douglas Lockwood) 1st
Edition 1963. 259pp.
The author's experiences with various tribes around
Australia. The book itself is in good condition. Special. |
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WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL .
H/C + D/W (A.M. Duncan-Kemp) 1st Edition, 1968. 325pp. A history of the aboriginal tribes of
South-west Queensland. Mint condition.
Normally priced at around $60.00 even in
second-hand condition.
Review:
This book describes in rich and
absorbing detail the Channel Country world of the author - the far
south-west of Queensland and the north of South Australia where lie
the mighty cattle kingdoms.
Few, apart from the Aborigines, know
the Channel Country as does the author - its climates and its moods,
its secret trails and the creatures that use them, its shadowy blue
ranges and its rugged stony slopes, its maze of water-bearing streams
and gullies - in good seasons the far-from-simple network of
irrigation channels provided by Nature to carry silt and seed and
water across the land, its shy tribesmen who lived in three worlds
ruled by strange gods, self-contained but connected by spirit-links
all rigidly inaccessible except to the initiate and those favoured few
white folk who know the Aborigines well.
In its dangers and discomforts, and
above all in the unwritten laws of its wild society, she finds a deep
personal fulfilment in early youth her father told her: "You
will always be alone, but not lonely. Loneliness can be
communion."
William Duncan's strangely attractive
personality is unforgettably caught up in these pages so
understandingly written by his daughter . So is the country itself
(called "desert," but which is totally unlike any other
desert in the world) and the ways of the creatures among which the
author has spent so much of her life.
Alas! ... The ever onward march of
civilization leaves less and less room for the untamed, whether land,
animal or human, and Mrs. Duncan-Kemp's colourful and fascinating book
shows what Australia and the world has already lost, and could lose
beyond recall by their passing unrecorded.
In the midst of this strange, yet
attractive area lies an old cattle station, "Mooraberrie,"
owned by her parents from the early 1890's, and where Alice Duncan, as
she prefers to be called, was born and grew up. "Where
Strange Gods Call" tells of her love for this, then,
remote spot, the Kirrenderri of the aboriginal tribes that once roamed
and had their being there. It portrays adventures and experiences
unusual in any language and in any walk of life. It is a narrative
which threads its way through a vast and colourful canvas - a story
(or many stories within a story) which divulges as many secrets of the
country's mysteries and aboriginal people as it recounts exciting
encounters with wild cattle, sudden floods and a wild untamed land,
written by a person with rare insight and experience in these
little-known areas.
Alice Duncan has told more than the
tales of growing up on an outback cattle station. This is her fourth
book is at the same time an important study of natural history and of
the aboriginal tribes who were associated in these adventures. It is a
vivid account of men and women against nature, of survival, of the
dangers as well as the pleasures of the seldom trodden tracks, and of
making the pioneers' lonely way over the trackless sand-hill and
channel country.
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