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Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation / Gaye Sculthorpe, John Carty, Howard Morphy, Maria Nugent, Ian Coates, Lissant Bolton, Jonathan Jones.

Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation / Gaye Sculthorpe, John Carty, Howard Morphy, Maria Nugent, Ian Coates, Lissant Bolton, Jonathan Jones.
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ISBN 9781921953231
Author Sculthorpe, Gaye (author.)
Title Indigenous Australia : enduring civilisation / Gaye Sculthorpe, John Carty, Howard Morphy, Maria Nugent, Ian Coates, Lissant Bolton, Jonathan Jones.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London : British Museum Press ; Canberra, ACT : National Museum of Australia Press ; 2015.
©2015.
Description 272 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Note Published to accompany the exhibition of works from the collection of the British Museum and held at the British Museum, London, 23 April - 2 August 2015, and at the National Museum of Australia, 26 November - 28 March 2016.
Organised with the National Museum of Australia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Forewords -- Introduction / Gaye Sculthorpe, Lissant Bolton and Ian Coates -- 1. Understanding country / Howard Morphy and John Carty -- Kimberley spear points / John Carty -- Fibrecraft / Lissant Bolton -- A symphony of lines : reading south-east shields / Jonathan Jones -- Painting country / John Carty -- 2. Encounters in country / Maria Nugent -- `Everything after Cook was between all of us' / Maria Nugent -- William Barak, Coranderrk and the arts of diplomacy / Maria Nugent -- `Let us hear no more of Pigeon' : violence in the Kimberley / Ian Coates -- The Carrolup children's drawings / Ian Coates -- 3. Out of country / Gaye Sculthorpe -- 4. Drawing on country / Gaye Sculthorpe.
Subjects British Museum -- Exhibitions.
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Exhibitions
Aboriginal Australians, in art -- Exhibitions
Indigenous art -- Australia -- Exhibitions
Aboriginal Australians -- Exhibitions.
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Carty, John (author)
Morphy, Howard (author.)
Nugent, Maria (author.)
Coates, Ian (author.)
Bolton, Lissant, 1954 - (author.)
Jones, Jonathan, 1978- (author)
Other Corporate Bodies National Museum of Australia
British Museum
Call number NMA G 2015
NMA 2015
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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date
A0078251X NMA 2015
National Museum of Australia publications   . *, Not for Loan .  
A00782575 NMA G 2015
National Museum of Australia publications (loan copy) . Available to Museum Staff .  
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