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Building a Nation : A History of the Australian House / John Archer.

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ISBN 0002174987
Author Archer, John, 1941- (author)
Title Building a Nation : A History of the Australian House / John Archer.
Other title History of the Australian house
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney : Collins, ©1987.
©1987.
Description 240 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series Australian history
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 237-238.
Summary Includes Aboriginal shelters and building materials p. 9, 12-23, 164; sacred totemic objects p. 21, 23; women's role in building p. 17, 22; Aboriginal displacement p. 97; Indigenous motifs p. 137; images 'Native encampment' p. 12, Aboriginal camp p. 14, paperbark gunyah, and bark and brush shelter p. 15, dome-shaped spinifex shelter p. 16, hut skeleton, and 'Mative mia mias' p. 19, using paperbark p. 20, grass hut used for scarification ceremonies, and cabbage-tree palm leaf shelter p. 21, beehive hut p. 22, bark-covered mia-mias p. 23, winter quarters p. 68, shelters covered by gubba blankets p. 96.
Subjects Architecture, Domestic -- History
Literature and stories - Non fiction - Scientific and professional
Literature and stories - Non indigenous
Housing - Shelters
Body - Scarification
Religion - Totemism
Gender relations - Division of labour
House construction
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings -- Australia -- History
Architecture, Domestic -- Australia -- History
House construction -- Australia -- History
Architecture, Domestic -- Australia
Call number KENNEDY 728.30994 ARC
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A00945874 KENNEDY 728.30994 ARC
Kennedy Collection   . *, Not for Loan .  
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