Nomads of the Australian Desert

First Edition. Based mainly on the Pitjandjara & Junkandjar people. Subsistence patterns including food preparation; material culture; trade; sand drawings; string figures; body painting rock painting & engraving; head ornaments; stone arrangements, childrens drawings in crayon; leaf games; myths in relation to sacred sites; objects, astronomy, animal & art; rituals including initiation, rain, increase, mortuary; tooth avulsion; medicine men; dancing; sign language.

628 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates, 12 pages of colour plates : illustrations, map ; 27 cm. (ex-library with marks removed, fep blank removed, small stamp on title page; included leaf of plates with wear to edges). #1019

Not a collector’s copy, but a firm, tight and affordable copy of this IMPORTANT BOOK.

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