| Description |
312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 26 x 36 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Includes index |
| Summary |
Sites and subjects of rock paintings and rock engravings; different rock art techniques - stencil art, blown dot, engraved, freehand, beeswax, ochre imprint, scratched, abraded line, com posite stencil, dry pigment drawing, finger marking, positive hand prints; Wandjinas; Lightening Brothers; Rainbow serpent; Namarakah Spirit Women; x-ray style animals and fish; desert art; burial art; painted anthropomorphs |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Key item |
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Mythology |
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Rock art |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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NSL:M copy : jacket filed |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 294-302 |
| Notes |
Text in Hindi |
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Author awarded J.P. Thompson Medal by the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland in 1990 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Art.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Petroglyphs -- Australia.
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Rock paintings -- Australia.
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Rock paintings -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Rock paintings -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
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| Genre/Form |
Art.
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| Author |
Bradshaw, Joseph, 1854-1916.
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Queensland. National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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| LC no. |
90131671 |
| ISBN |
186273013X |
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