Art Wandjina Aboriginal Cave Paintings by Crawford (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 144 pages with 128 B/W and full-colour illustrations, as well as a bibliography and index. Usual ex-library markings. Some wear to lettering on spine. "[My aboriginal guides] have seen the way of life of their fathers with all its standards, its moral values and its aims overthrown and destroyed in a few years. Many of the people died, some of sickness, some were shot, and some were simply unable to adapt to the new standards. Those who survived live in a changed world and only a few maintain a sentimental attachment for the life of the past: they occasionally visit the sacred centres, sing the rain songs when the monsoon approaches, keep the paintings at the fertility centres fresh and rub ochre on the bones of their fathers. In a few years, they too will be dead, leaving behind them descendants who are preoccupied with learning the value of money, and how to handle cattle, to add up numbers, to write letters and to drink - learning, in fact, to take their place in a modern community. The writing of this book is the fulfillment of a promise made to the old people to record the way of the past, so that later generations of Aborigines may know the reasons and the beliefs behind the paintings and engravings of their forefathers." - Introduction. Oversized book may require additional shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968. Quarto, 144 pages with 128 illustrations (50 in colour). Cloth lightly marked and a little sunned on the spine; front board a little bowed; faint marginal discolouration of the text block; an excellent copy lacking the dustwrapper. The author was Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum. The book is based on information gathered by him on five expeditions through the Kimberley, accompanied by Aboriginal guides and a professional photographer. Provenance: the anthropologist Anthony Forge, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper ('Yale '69').

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Light shelf wear to the wrapper. Light tanning and a coupe of light spots of foxing to the fly leaves of the hardback. A lovely copy. 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Western Australian Museum, 1968. Quarto, 144 pages with 128 illustrations (50 in colour). Cloth; endpapers and adjacent leaves very lightly foxed; a near-fine copy with the very good price-clipped dustwrapper (a little rubbed and creased at the extremities). The author was Curator of Anthropology and Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum. The book is based on information gathered by him on five expeditions through the Kimberley, accompanied by Aboriginal guides and a professional photographer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 144 pages including an Index, illustrated with many drawings and photos, many large and a good number in color. A small ownership signature on the first free page and an ownership sticker on the front board, otherwise the book is clean and bright. A solid book with no odors in a clean dust jacket that shows minimal edge wear. Paypal always welcome. We pack and ship all our books with care in cardboard boxes. Additional photos emailed upon request. Overseas shipping is $42 Registered Mail.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (1968). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket (edges chipped and torn). (144pp.). With frontisp., numerous illusts of which many are col. and text-map. 1st edition. Fine and scarce.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1968. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (144pp.). With frontisp., numerous illusts of which many are col. and text-map. Previous owners name and name stamp on front fly-leaf. 1st edition. Fine and scarce.