Aboriginal art : the Western Australian Art Gallery collection / [design, text and line illustration, Frank Norton]
- Bib ID:
- 730404
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Western Australian Art Gallery
- Description:
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- [Perth] : Western Australian Art Gallery Board, 1969
- 15 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
- Summary:
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Booklet illustrating 110 items from collections, preface notes expansion of collection from nucleus donated by American-Australian Arnhem Land Expedition; items illustrated in monochrome with brief notes on sizes, colours, provenance, uses & some brief versions of myths, includes grave posts (Melville & Bathurst Islands, Elcho Island, Milingimbi, Yirrkala, Maningrida), bark paintings (Croker Island, Oenpelli, Port Keats, Groote Eylandt, Milingimbi, Maningrida, Melville Island, Yirrkala), ritual objects, figures of Wawalag sisters & posts (Yirrkala), carved animals, clapsticks, didgeridoos, spearheads, shield (Windy Corner, W.A.), pearshell pubic covering (Broome), rock engraving (Port Hedland); map shows approximate locations; brief notes on preparation of wooden posts & bark for painting, pigments & brushes, lists artists by area.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Subject:
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- Western Australian Art Gallery -- Catalogs
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Catalogs
- W©Þgilak / Wawilak people (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- Costume and clothing - Pubic covering
- Stories and motifs - Wawalag Sisters
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Mortuary objects - Poles
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Weapons - Shields
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Music - Instruments - Percussion - Clapsticks
- Animals
- Djinang / Dyinang people (N94.1) (NT SD53-02)
- Music - Instruments - Wind - Didjeridu
- Wadeye / Port Keats (Daly River NT Top End SD52-11)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
- Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Milingimbi (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Groote Eylandt (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07, SD53-08)
- Maningrida (Central Arnhem Land NT SD53-02)
- Elcho Island (East Arnhem Land NT SC53-15, SD53-03)
- Gunbalanya / Oenpelli (West Arnhem Land NT SD53-01)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Croker Island (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
- Port Hedland (WA East Pilbara SF50-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Norton, Frank
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1969
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