| Description |
128 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Shields -- Boomerangs -- Clubs -- Spears -- Spear throwers -- Wooden vessels. nets, bags, baskets -- Articles of clothing -- Clothing and ornament -- Personal ornaments -- Human hair string -- Manufacture of twine -- Fire making -- Bone needles, awls, fishing hooks -- Instruments used for cutting and scraping -- Foods, decorating materials, narcotics, fixatives, etc -- Musical instruments -- Letter or message sticks -- Canoes -- Wallets -- Stone chisels or adzes -- Flaked stone axes -- Chipped and flaked stone implements -- Flaked stone knives -- Glass spear heads -- Ground stone axes -- Stone hammer axes -- Gad-shaped axes -- Grooved axes -- Stone wedges -- Pebble axes -- Scrapers, etc. -- "Blanks" -- Spokeshaves, chipped and flaked stone knives -- Grinding stones -- Grinding and pounding stones -- Chipping hammers -- Anvils and husking stones -- Stones for dressing spear shafts -- Large grinding stones -- Tasmanian stone implements -- Comparative stone series -- Ceremonial objects -- Sacred sticks and stones -- Churinga -- Articles of magic -- Pointing sticks and bones -- Shoes, etc. worn during a Kurdaitcha -- Stone knives used in certain initiation ceremonies -- Burial and mourning -- Melville and Bathurst Islands graves -- Grave post -- Objects used by the natives of Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Native bark drawings -- Picture on smoked bark -- Scene illustrating Aboriginal life -- Playthings -- Smoking pipes -- Miscellaneous -- Specimens illustrating tree cutting -- Woman's dilly bag and contents |
| Notes |
First edition (1901) published as: Guide to the Australian ethnographical collection in the National Museum of Victoria |
| Bibliography |
1st edition called: Guide to the Australian ethnographical collection exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria |
| Restricted |
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress |
| Subject |
Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
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Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) -- Exhibitions.
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Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria -- Exhibitions
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Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.) -- Exhibitions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Exhibitions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Implements -- Exhibitions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Implements.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Industries -- Exhibitions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture -- Exhibitions.
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Anthropological museums and collections -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Ethnological museums and collections -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Exhibitions -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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| SUBJECT |
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
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Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Spencer, Baldwin, 1860-1929.
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Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
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| LC no. |
86041630 |
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