AUSTRALIANA, ABORIGINAL  –

Aboriginal people of New South Wales carved trees as a form of visual communication for thousands of years. These elaborate designs carved into the sapwood and heartwood of trees once a section of external bark was removed – were meant to last. Sadly, after European colonisation, the practice was abandoned and the original meanings lost. First published in 1918, this 2011 facsimile edition has a new cover, half-title page and reduced size map. Published by Sydney University Press in conjunction with the State Library of NSW.

• vii, 104 p., [39] leaves, 39 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., 1 folded map, 1 port. ; 31 cm.
• Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological series ; no. 3.
• Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918 Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2011
• vii, 104 p., [39] leaves, 39 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., 1 folded map, 1 port. ; 31 cm.
• #020225
• (Some wrinkles to adhesive protective laminate, otherwise Fine)
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Ceremonies – Initiation
  • Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies – Mortuary objects – Poles
  • Religion – After death beliefs
  • Art – Sculpture – Tree carving
  • Sites – Scarred trees
  • Sites – Mortuary sites and cemeteries
  • Technology – Tools
  • Religion – Totemism
  • Religion – Rites – Ceremonial grounds
  • Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies – Tree and platform burial
  • Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
  • Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
  • River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian — New South Wales
  • Wood-carving — New South Wales
  • Art, Primitive — New South Wales
  • Aboriginal Australians — New South Wales — Wood-carving
  • Australian