Darwin: Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1994. 1st ed., octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, maps, pp 73. Near fine condition. Alternative title: "Riji and jakoli". Exceptionally rare. Richly illustrated monograph, including 50 colour plates showing pearl-shell art and cultural artefacts. Detailed study of the uses.....
Vancouver: Miegunyah Press/University of British Columbia, 1993. 1st ed., large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xxxi, 624, original boards in d.j. Clean and unmarked. Near-fine condition. Robert Tonkinson's own copy (Western Australian anthropologist) with his stamp to front paste-down and a typed, tipped-in presentation inscription to Tonkinson, signed.....
Sydney: Methuen, 1982. 4to, original cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp 176. Dustjacket faded to top edge, Book in near-fine condn.
Perth: University of Western Australia, 1988. Slim octavo, illustrated stapled wraps, many b&w illus, references, pp 68. Near-fine condition. A significant study which illustrates and describes the important collection of Aboriginal works of the (Berndt) Anthropology Research Museum. A rich variety of types of Aboriginal art is represented, from across.....
Perth: University of Western Australia, 2004. 1st ed quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, pp 77. Near fine condition. Exhibition catalogue of contemporary WA Aboriginal art, richly illustrated. Includes introduction discussing Aboriginal art, bibliography, list of works from Western Australia. Chapters on art include 'South-West', 'Murchison-Gascoyne', 'Pilbara', 'Kimberley', 'Western Desert'...
Crawley: University of Western Australia, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 2012. Quarto, wraps, colour plates, pp 61. Occasional paper (Berndt Museum of Anthropology), no. 9. Previous owner's signature in pencil, otherwise in fine condition.
Crawley: University of Western Australia, 2013. Roy 8vo, wraps, colour plates, pp 58. Fine condn. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Occasional Paper No. 11.
Perth: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 2013. 1st ed., quarto, pp.104, col and b&w plates, maps, music, orig stiff wraps, near fine condn. Explories the relationship between people, country and the stories of "gossip songs" by the local indigenous language groups of the Goulburn Islands and Western Arnhem Land between 1948.....
Perth: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, 2013. 1st ed., quarto, pp.104, col and b&w plates, maps, music notation, orig stiff illustrated wraps. Near fine condition. Accompanied exhibition. Explores the relationship between people, country and the stories of "gossip songs" by the local indigenous language groups of the Goulburn Islands and Western.....