Description |
214 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps, plates (1 color) ; 37 cm |
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regular print |
Series |
Australian Aboriginal studies ; no. 52 |
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Prehistory and material culture series ; no. 9 |
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Aboriginal studies ;
no. 52
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Prehistory and material culture series ; no. 9
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Australian aboriginal studies ; no. 52
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Summary |
p.1-36; Brief outline of country in Deaf Adder Creek & Cadell River area, first alien contacts, rock art as records of the past (present impossibility of dating), later alien visitors; Cadell River - lists locations with brief descriptions, figures 6-12 & bark paintings showing X - ray styles, figures 1374, types of brush, storage of clay pigment, mural painted at Bamyili, sacred Maraian objects; p.3770; Aboriginal (Ngalgbon/Rembarnga) informants biographical information; figures 75-155, including comparative styles of boomerangs & spears depicted, depiction of footprints; p.71-104; Data collection and processing (conversion of field drawings to line drawings, methods of obtaining meanings from informants; figures 156-241; p.105-164; Painting materials, pigments and techniques (bark, brushes, fixatives, pigments - names, sources, other colours, ritual classification), plates I-LIV; p.165-170; Conventions of style (Mimi art associated with the past); perspective, symbolic representations; main styles, characteristics of 1) Mimi art, 2) X - ray art, attempt to classify art into 4 types; p.171178; Temporal sequences, lack of reliable dating methods, relative age, changes in symbolistic representation, early Mimi art, late Mimi art, transition from Mimi art to X - ray art; p.179-182; Spirit beings & mytho - totemic motifs; p.183-187; Cadell River art - places and affinities, phases of style, general description of the area & the site locations, similarities in style with Kimberley art; p.188-205; Documentation for plates & text figures; p.206-207; Glossary of Aboriginal terms (mainly Djauan, Gunwinggu, Maielli, Ngalgbon, Rembarnga & Tiwi) |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Antiquities Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
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Arnhem Land (N.T.) Antiquities |
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
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Rock paintings Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
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Aboriginal Australians - Art |
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Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory |
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Aborigines. Rock paintings & bark paintings. Northern Territory. Cadell River region & Deaf Adder Creek region. Illustrations |
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Art - Art motifs - Track and footprint |
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Art - Art motifs - X-Ray |
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Art - Mural and street art |
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Art - Painting - Bark |
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Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution |
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Art - Rock art - Painting |
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Art - Subjects - Dynamic figures / Mimi |
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Barunga / Bamyili (NT Top End Upper Roper SD53-09) |
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Cadell River (Central Arnhem Land SD53-02) |
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Deaf Adder Creek / Gorge (Kakadu, NT SD53-05) |
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Gunwinggu / Gunwinygu / Kunwinjku language (N65) (NT SD53-02) |
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Gunwinggu / Gunwinygu / Kunwinjku people (N65) (NT SD53-02) |
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Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09) |
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Language - Vocabulary |
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Mayali / Mayawarli people (N44) (NT SD53-01) |
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Ngalkbun people (N76) (NT SD53-06) |
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Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects |
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Religion - Totemism |
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Rembarrnga people (N73) (NT SD53-06) |
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Rock Paintings - Arnhem Land |
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Settlement and contacts - Explorers |
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Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians |
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Stories and motifs - Mythological beings |
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Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16) |
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Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16) |
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Weapons - Boomerangs |
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Weapons - Spears |
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West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51) |
Notes |
Includes glossary |
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Index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 208-209 |
Event |
1973 |
Notes |
BF copy 2 -donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Art.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Antiquities
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Art -- Pictorial works
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Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Deaf Adder Creek Region -- Art
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Deaf Adder Creek district -- Art
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Deaf Adder Creek district, Northern Territory -- Art
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Pictorial works.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Deaf Adder Creek Region
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Painting -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Painting, Aboriginal Australian.
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Rock paintings -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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SUBJECT |
Arnhem Land (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007377 -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
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Genre/Form |
Art.
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Author |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
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LC no. |
74160160 |
ISBN |
0855750294 |