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Australia in Oxford / edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards.

Australia in Oxford / edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards.
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ISBN 0902793225
ISSN 0141-2477
Title Australia in Oxford / edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Oxford [Eng.] : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, c1988.
Description 96 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series Monograph / Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford ISSN0141-2477 ; 4
Note Exhibition catalog.
One map on p. [2] of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies.
Contents Foreword / Sir Zelman Cowan -- William Dampier and his botanical collections / erena marner -- The peculiar natural history of New Holland /Steve Simpson -- The emerging shape / Elizabeth Edwards -- Sturt and his journeys /Catherine Hart -- Representation and reality: science and the visual image / Elizabeth Edwards -- The original Australians and the evolution of anthropology / Howard Morphy -- 'The foundations of all good and noble principles': Oxonians and the Australian universities in the nineteenth century / Richard Symonds -- Australians at Oxford / John Legge.
Summary Papers explore early understandings of Australia as represented in the collections of the archives at Oxford; includes a chapter on the original Australians and the collections of Aboriginal art and artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Subjects Pitt Rivers Museum
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- History
Education, Higher -- Australia -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Catalogs
Anthropology -- Australia
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Exhibitions.
Natural history -- Australia -- Exhibitions
Ethnological museums and collections -- England -- Oxford
Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- French
Australia -- In art
Australia -- Discovery and exploration
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Morphy, Howard (contributor.)
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- (contributor.)
Other Corporate Bodies Pitt Rivers Museum
Series Monograph (Pitt Rivers Museum) ;4.
Call number 2016.536
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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date
10003254 2016.536
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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