Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art

Description

Includes shields, boomerangs, spear-throwers, clubs, carved trees (eastern Australia); weapons and utensils, ritual objects, ceremonial regalia, ground drawings (Central Australia and Kimberleys); weapons, twined baskets, didjeridu, grave posts, stringy-bark baskets, spears, muraian, bark drawings (Arnhem Land and adjacent islands); baobab nuts, pearl-shell phallo-crypts, concentric figures (Western Australia); superimposition of incised patterns, maze pattern (Broome district); full description and meanings of designs, methods of execution and materials, painted shields (northeastern Queensland)