Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art
by McCarthy, F D
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, NSW : Australian Museum , 1974. Eight Edition . Softcover (Side-stapled). Good Condition. Quarto. Stapled booklet and pages tight Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Inside covers have very faint foxing, text is not foxed Edges faintly browned Card covers have some edge wear, some rubbing, some marks on the back and a thumb-print sized chip missing on back edge Includes shields, boomerangs, spear-throwers, clubs, carved trees (eastern Australia); weapons and utensils, ritual objects, ceremonial regalia, ground drawings (Central Australia and Kimberleys); weapons, twined baskets, didjeridu, grave posts, stringy-bark baskets, spears, muraian, bark drawings (Arnhem Land and adjacent islands); baobab nuts, pearl-shell phallo-crypts, concentric figures (Western Australia); superimposition of incised patterns, maze pattern (Broome district); full description and meanings of designs, methods of execution and materials, painted shields (northeastern Queensland) B & W and colour photos
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54487
- Title
- Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art
- Author
- McCarthy, F D
- Format/Binding
- Softcover (Side-stapled)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Eight Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Australian Museum
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, NSW
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 61
- Weight
- 99.99 lbs
- Keywords
- Australian Aboriginals & Torres Strait Islanders Aboriginal, decorative art, weapons, bark painting, totems
- Size
- Quarto
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.