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Australia's greatest rock art / Grahame L. Walsh.
Penn Museum Library N7401 .W36 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walsh, Grahame, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Aboriginal Australian.
- Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Rock paintings--Australia.
- Rock paintings.
- Petroglyphs--Australia.
- Petroglyphs.
- Australia--Antiquities.
- Australia.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bathurst, N.S.W., Australia : E.J. Brill/Robert Brown, 1988.
- Summary:
- Sites and subjects of rock paintings and rock engravings; different rock art techniques - stencil art, blown dot, engraved, freehand, beeswax, ochre imprint, scratched, abraded line, com posite stencil, dry pigment drawing, finger marking, positive hand prints; Wandjinas; Lightening Brothers; Rainbow serpent; Namarakah Spirit Women; x-ray style animals and fish; desert art; burial art; painted anthropomorphs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-302) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the Storey Family, in memory of Dr. Bayard T. and Frances E. Storey.
- ISBN:
- 186273013X
- 9781862730137
- OCLC:
- 20372761
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