Sacred places in Australia / text by James Cowan ; photographs by Colin Beard
- Bib ID:
- 2888029
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cowan, James, 1942-
- Description:
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- East Roseville, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster Australia, 1991
- 232 p. : col. ill., 1 map ; 29 cm.
- ISBN:
- 073180192X
- Summary:
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Dreaming stories from Valley of the Boomerangs, Carnarvon Gorge; Herring Bone Country, Pilbara; Depuch Island; Kimberley; Bungle Bungles; Katherine; Goose Camp, Northern Territory; Haast Bluff; Tanami Desert; Uluru; Katatjuta (the Olgas); Mootwingee; rock paintings; rock engravings; sky heroes.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 232.
- Subject:
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- Sacred space -- Australia
- Sacred space -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion -- Pictorial works
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Pictorial works
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Art - Rock painting
- Stories and motifs - Rock outcrops
- Art - Rock engraving
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Tanami Desert (Central NT SE52, SE53, SF52, SF53)
- Kata Tjuta / Olgas (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Carnarvon Range (SW Qld SG55-07)
- Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
- Haasts Bluff / Ikuntji (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Ikuntji / Haasts Bluff (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Mutawintji / Mootwingee / Mutanie (NW NSW SH54-15)
- Purnululu / Bungle Bungles (WA East Kimberley SE52-06)
- Depuch Island (WA West Pilbara SF50-03)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Beard, Colin
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1991
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