Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Rare title on subject; a travellers guide to Aboriginal Australia; state-by-state guide to their art, land and culture; whether you want reconciliation on a better understanding this guide will help.

Aboriginal jockey legends.

Account of the fortunes of shipwrecked Dutch sailors and their passengers, marooned on the west coast of Australia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

An overview of traditional Aboriginal religious paintings.

Interviews with successful Aboriginal women; by Australian actor/singer.

Aboriginal clan from Northern Territory.

Cultural processes of Aboriginal women.

Author lived in the desert, hunting and exploring her Walmajarri partner's country.

Effects of the decision in 1965 to pay Aboriginal workers the Full Award for their work on cattle stations.

This text tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic dot paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors.

Self-help book draws extensively from Australian Aboriginal medicine.

A traditional Waripiri Dreaming narrative, belonging to Henry Cook Jakamarra from the Tanami Desert. It tells the story of two Wallaby Creator-Beings who crisscross the country, bringing many sacred sites into existence. 5-8 yrs.

Autobiography of WA actress.

Biography & paintings of Aboriginal artist.

Introduces the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley and their 60,000-year-old culture.

Aboriginal legend, Northern Territory. Native style illustrations. 6 yrs+.

Stories of the Mananambarra.

Bilingual collection from Pilbara.

A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid strictures of London. In a society deep...