Search Results: Aborigines from Lems Bookshop

The biggest single overseas migration the world had ever seen - eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest of seas, carrying fifteen hundred people, food for two years and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination at Sydney Cove. 392 pages with 8 pages of mainly colour illustrations. Book in very good condition with minor foxing and light tanning.

A collection of twenty four essays by Aboriginal contributors on diverse matters but emphasising the determination to assert pride in their Aboriginality, to take control of their culture, and the need to have Aboriginal studies in Australian schools to raise awareness of Aboriginal culture and history. 306 pages with 30 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with stamps on last page and stickers inside back cover and light reader wear. Cover in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

The history from the standpoint of those who were dispossessed, the original Australians revealing what White Australia lost by its massive and unrelenting onslaught on Aboriginal culture and how Aboriginals, in different ways, have attempted to maintain their distinctive identity. 226 pages with 24 black and white illustrations and 2 maps. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and date on first page and a few pages with some light pencil underlining and booksellers sticker on back cover.

Aboriginal peoples have lived in Kakadu for at least 50,000 years. An endless number of high rock shelters provided pleasant living conditions and an abundance of food and water resources gave plenty of leisure time. There are several distinct styles of art beginning with Mimi Art, then X-ray Art, Pre-estuarine Period, Estuarine Period, and "Contact" Period. 86 pages with 86 colour illustrations and 2 maps. Book in near fine condition.

Contemporary painters and print makers reveal an exciting meld of cultural traditions and techniques - the results are often stunning, always varied and innovative. Each artist shares a pride in and a commitment to their living culture. 144 pages including 85 paintings and prints by 25 Aboriginal artists. Book in very good condition ex library with small writing on publishing page and remnants of borrowing sleaves on back end papers and front and back end papers show wear. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with a sticker on spine and two on back.

Part of The Arts in Australia series. Aboriginal art expressed on different mediums, in different settings, and using different materials. 32 pages with 4 colour and 22 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners details on first page.

A detailed examination of bark canoes as an important aspect of Aboriginal life. The author tells why the riverine Aborigines developed the art of making such canoes, where and how they were used, and how, like many other Aboriginal crafts, it declined rapidly after the advent of Europeans settlers. 80 pages with 45 pages with black and white photos or drawings and 4 pages of colour photos. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket intact but with a tear and chip on back.

A variety of Aboriginal legends many of them about the origin of the different forms of animal life. 141 pages. Book in very good+ condition.

A detailed examination of an important aspect of Aboriginal life - why the riverine Aboriginals developed the art of bark canoe making, where and how they were used, and how like so many Aboriginal crafts it declined rapidly after the advent of European settlers. 80 pages with 55 (4 in colour) illustrations and a map. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear top and bottom spine.

Although the vast majority of prisoners labouring in the Australian penal colonies came from England, Ireland and Scotland, men and women from a diverse range of places were represented including aboriginal convicts - from 1800 to the early1850s at least 90 from Australia, 34 from South Africa and 6 from New Zealand. This is the story of those aboriginal convicts. 298 pages with 16 colour plates and 6 pages of maps. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on last page and light tanning. Cover stamp on spine and back.

A unique record preserving the stories of Aboriginal people providing a vital and fascinating insight into Aboriginal lives and cultural traditions. 113 pages including 45 pages of colour photos. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

The author describes some Northern Australian Aboriginal customs, rituals, and art and discusses their future and the policy of assimilation. 222 pages with 22 black and white photographs, a map and some figures in the text. Book in good+ condition with some tanning and some wear to cover.

The focus of the book is on those remarkable Aboriginal objects called toa - objects of art and information within the context of Diyari culture. Toa were used as directional markers or sign posts in traditional Aboriginal Australia - there shape, colour, design or appendages representing conspicuous topographic features which are linked to the mystic wanderings of the Dreaming beings. 144 pages including photographs of mainly objects on almost all pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with small stamp and reference number top first page, small stamp on publishing page and borrowing sleeve back inside cover. Page 47 has a large tear which has been repaired with sticky tape. Cover has some minor wear and two stickers bottom back.

A selection of 3,000 Australian native words and their equivalents, as closely as possible, in English. 41 pages. Book in very good condition with cover showing some wear/marks (see photo).

A collection of religious paintings to contemplate, to admire and to meditate upon. The presentation is purposely simplified so that the paintings, with minimal notes, are left to speak for themselves as much as possible. 192 pages including 48 paintings of the Western Desert and 33 bark paintings of Arnhem Land all in colour. Book in near fine condition ex library with small stamps inside back cover, small sticker on bottom spine and bottom back and cover in clear wrapper.

Following the success of the original publication a completely new edition followed by this corrected reprint portrays the way of life of the Australian Aboriginal. A 48 page booklet held by staples with numerous black and white photographs and figures. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and some letters on first page. Cover shows some wear (see photo). This is a small book for which postage can be reduced in Australia - contact me to make arrangement.

Australia, a continent where everything is different - people, places, climate , plants, animals, land forms and history. 263 pages with 20 black and white photographs and endpapers map. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in good+ condition with minor chips and three tears on front (see photo).

People, places, climate, plants, animals, strange landforms and strange aspects of history combine to make even the familiar seem unique. 263 pages with 4 colour and 16 black and white photographs and endpaper map. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with a small tear top left and minor wear to some edges.

A critical and systematic look at the religion and social order of the Aborigines providing a new insight into the special character of their culture. 210 pages with 9 figures and a map. Book in very good condition with light tanning and cover with minor wear.

A wide ranging introduction to Australian Aboriginal arts - traditional but changing and innovating. Discussed and illustrated are some of the main artistic driving forces-oral literature, visual and representational art, music and dramatic forms. It outlines the place of art in the wider community, its symbolic expressions and its socio-cultural functions. 320 pages with over 300 illustrations many in colour. The book and dust jacket are in as new condition. Missing are the two records of Aboriginal songs and colour transparencies in a separate slide-holder. This is reflected in the price.