Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the wond...

This text is written for health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing social and emotional wellbeing issues and mental health conditions. It provides information on the issues influencing mental health, good mental health practice, and strategies for...

Draws on Diamond's near five decades in New Guinea as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, exploring how tribal peoples approach essential human problems.

A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedic Dictionary, by John Bradley and Yanyuwa Families, is a substantial two-volume work that will serve as a rich, authoritative repository of cultural and linguistic knowledge for, and about, the Yanyuwa – Saltwater people from coastal and island country near Borroloola, North...

"Yagan Square in Central Perth recognises Yagan, the son of Midgegooroo, the leader of the Beeliar tribe, a territory on the southern side of the Canning River and within the greater metropolitan area. He was born about 1800 but remembered only for his brief interaction with the British settlers ...

This atlas has three parts: maps and diagrams, a one hundred year history of the Crocodile Islands and an illustrated dictionary.

"'Yidaki' or didgeridoo is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world. Djalu Gurruwiwi is a full blood Aboriginal Elder from Gove in the North East Arnhem Land and is the spiritual guardian of this ancient musical instrument. The yidaki is used for sacred Aboriginal Corroboree's and is only ...

In 1946–47 the senior ceremonial leaders of the Yirrkala region produced 365 vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Held by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, the works have never been shown in any great number....

The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley s...

Long before they were ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Yothu Yindi were a bunch of Yolngu (Aboriginal) and balanda (non-Indigenous) mates in far-north Australia jamming together for fun. Soon they were creating some of the coolest new music in the country, splicing traditional sounds with electric, a...

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a recons...

"Yuendumu Everyday explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aboriginal settlement."

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & SPECIFIC COLLECTIONS. AUSTRALIAN. The official companion publication to the Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja (Returning to Mokare's home land) exhibition. Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja, which means 'Returning to Mokare's Home Country' features 14 rare, significant objects that orig...