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McCarthy, F.D.: Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art, Sydney 1974

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Book Review

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -7-

Foreword -9-

Introduction -11-

Australian Aboriginal Art -14-

Eastern Australia -17-

Shield -17-

Boomerangs -21-

Spear-throwers -21-

Clubs -22-

Skin-cloaks -24-

Carved Trees -24-

North-Eastern Queensland -25-

Cape York Sculpture -27-

Central Australia, Northern Territory and East Kimberleys -30-

Weapons and Utensils -31-

Tjurunga -32-

Ceremonial Regalia -33-

Ground Drawings -34-

Arnhem Land an Adjacent Island -35-

Ceremonial Objects -36-

Sculptures -37-

Bark Paintings -39-

Mortuary Art -42-

Weapons -43-

Twined Baskets -44-

Pipes -44-

Bathurst and Melville Islands -46-

Grave-Posts -46-

Stringy-bark Baskets and Weapons -46-

Western Australia -50-

Weapons -50-

Ceremonial Boards and Bull-roarers -53-

Baobab Nuts -54-

Pearl-shell Phallocrypts -54-

Broom District -54-

Relationships -56-

Select Bibliography -61-