Australia's greatest rock art / Grahame L. Walsh
- Bib ID:
- 2081897
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Walsh, Grahame L. (Grahame Leslie), 1944-2007
- Description:
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- Bathurst, N.S.W. : E.J. Brill/Robert Brown & Associates, c1988
- 312 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 26 x 36 cm.
- ISBN:
- 186273013X
- Summary:
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Sites and subjects of rock paintings and rock engravings; different rock art techniques - stencil art, blown dot, engraved, freehand, beeswax, ochre imprint, scratched, abraded line, com posite stencil, dry pigment drawing, finger marking, positive hand prints; Wandjinas; Lightening Brothers; Rainbow serpent; Namarakah Spirit Women; x-ray style animals and fish; desert art; burial art; painted anthropomorphs.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- NSL:M copy : jacket filed.
- Bibliography: p. 294-302.
- Subject:
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- Rock paintings -- Australia
- Petroglyphs -- Australia
- Art, Aboriginal Australian
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Animals
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Art - Art motifs - X-Ray
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Stories and motifs - Lightning Brothers
- Art - Art motifs - Dot
- Art - Art motifs - Stencil
- Art - Drawing
- Stories and motifs - Fish
- Art - Art motifs - Hand
- Art - Art motifs - Human figure
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Art - Subjects - Wandjina
- Australia -- Antiquities
- Australia
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2077 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2007
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1988
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