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