Australian Aboriginal decorative art / by Frederick D. McCarthy
- Bib ID:
- 713907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McCarthy, Frederick D. (Frederick David), 1905-1997
- Printer:
- (Sydney : Australasian Medical Publishing Co.)
- Description:
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- Sydney : Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1938
- 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Summary:
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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)
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 48.
- Subject:
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- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Art - Sculpture - Tree carving
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Art - Sand and ground design
- Art - Crafts - Baskets and basketmaking
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Material culture - String and rope making
- Plants - Stringybark
- Art - Art motifs - Geometric
- Weapons - Shields
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Mortuary objects - Poles
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Weapons - Spears
- Music - Instruments - Wind - Didjeridu
- Art - Carving and engraving - Boab nuts
- Material culture - Bark objects
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Technology - Utensils
- East Kimberley area (North NT SD52-15)
- Gippsland / Eastern Victoria (E Vic SJ55)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- New South Wales (NSW)
- Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Western Australia - Central Australia (WA SE52, SF52, SG52)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Museum
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2067 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1997
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1938
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