Research Catalog

Title

Aboriginal ethnographica / Daniel Sutherland Davidson.

Author

Davidson, Daniel Sutherland, 1900-

Publication

Carlisle, WA : Hesperian Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Akerman, Kim.

Description

x, 479 p. : ill., maps; 31 cm.

Summary

This magnificent volume of 489 x A4 pages contains the majority of Davidson's Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Implements
• Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
• Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities

Note

• Appreciation written by Kim Akerman.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Daniel Sutherland Davidson- an appreciation -- Selected Western Australian papers of Daniel Sutherland Davidson. Australian netting and basketry techniques -- Australian spear-traits and their derivations -- The chronology of Australian watercraft -- Notes on the ethnology of the Wheelman tribe of South-Western Australia -- The spear thrower in Australia -- Australian throwing sticks, throwing clubs and boomerangs -- Transport and receptacles in Aboriginal Australia -- Notes on two variant Australian baskets -- Stone axes of Western Australia -- Northwestern Australia and the question of influences from the East Indies -- Fire making in Australia -- Footwear of the Australian Aborigines -- Mourning caps of the Australian Aborigine -- The interlocking key design in Aboriginal Australian decorative art -- Disposal of the dead in Western Australia -- The thread cross in Australia -- Notes on the pictographs and petroglyphs of Western Australia and a discussion of their affinities elsewhere on the continent -- Possible source and antiquity of the slate churingas of Western Australia.

ISBN

• 9780859054911
• 0859054918

OCLC

742341562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library