Collected : 150 years of Aboriginal art and artifacts at the Macleay Museum / Susan M. Davies ; with a chapter by Rosemary Stack ; [photographer, David Liddle]
- Bib ID:
- 2130012
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Davies, Susan M, 1959-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Macleay Museum, c2002
- 108 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0958130000 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Essay on and photos of the Northern Territory collections - fighting stick, clubs, spear throwers, drone-pipe, model canoe, baskets, bag, belts, arm bands, neck ornaments, boomerangs hatchets, ceremonial spears; the bark painting collection; the Western Australian collections - shield, spear-throwers, boomerangs, saw-knives coolamon, feather bundle and fire sticks, spindle, glass stone and shell implements, pearl-shell ornaments; the Queensland collections - spear throwers, club, neck ornament, shields, baskets, boomerangs, kangaroo carving; and the New South Wales collections - shields, clubs, boomerangs; includes notes on collectors; attributes artefacts to owners where known.
- Notes:
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- Based on the exhibition Collected, curated by Susan M. Davies and Rosemary Stack, held at the Macleay Museum, 29 March 2001 to 30 January 2003.
- Bibliography: p. 103-105.
- Subject:
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- Macleay Museum -- Exhibitions
- Ethnology -- Australia -- Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture -- Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
- Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
- Material culture - Shell objects and decorations
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Material culture - Woven objects
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Weapons - Shields
- Bundjalung / Banjalang people (E12) (NSW SH56-02)
- Weapons - Spears
- Wargamay / Warrgamay people (Y134) (Qld SE55-10)
- Iwaidja / Yiwayja / Yiwadya people (N39) (NT SC53-13)
- Art - Crafts
- Weapons - Spearthrowers
- Art - Painting - Bark
- Ngalakan people (N77) (NT SE53-02)
- Nyawaygi people (Y129) (Qld SE55-10)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- New South Wales (NSW)
- Northern Territory (NT)
- Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16)
- Queensland (Qld)
- Western Australia (WA)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Collected: one hundred and fifty years of Aboriginal art and artifacts at the Macleay Museum
- Collected : 150 years of Aboriginal art and artefacts at the Macleay Museum
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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