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Aboriginal ethnographica / Daniel Sutherland Davidson.

Aboriginal ethnographica / Daniel Sutherland Davidson.
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ISBN 9780859054911
Author Davidson, Daniel Sutherland, 1900-1952 (author.)
Title Aboriginal ethnographica / Daniel Sutherland Davidson.
Cover title Aboriginal ethnographica : Aboriginal axes, spears, clubs, canoes, baskets & boomerangs.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlisle, WA : Hesperian Press, 2011.
©2011
Description x, 479 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
Note Foreword written by Kim Akerman.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary Contains the majority of Davidson's Australian ethnographic papers from 1933 to 1953.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Implements
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Akerman, Kim, 1947- (writer of foreword.)
Call number 2017.056
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