The Native Tribes of South Australia

Woods, J.D.

Verlag: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 1997

Beschreibung

Limited edition of 600 copies, octavo, not numbered, original cloth boards, upper and lower boards blind stamped decoration and title, spine decorated in gilt, sepia-toned plates, pp (vi) xxxviii, 316. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Near-fine condition. James Dominick Woods (1826 - 1905) edited and wrote the introductory chapter for 'The Native Tribes of South Australia', published in 1879. The book features chapters on various tribes by people who had worked with them: The Narrinyeri by George Taplin; The Adelaide Tribe by J.P. Wyatt; The Encounter Bay Tribe by C.W. Schurmann; the Dieyerie Tribe by S. Gason; and a chapter on the vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect (Northern Territory) by John Wm Ogilvie Bennett. "The six papers in this edited collection offer a fair reflection of the very incomplete state of ethnographic knowledge in the province of South Australia at the end of the 1870s" (Philip G. Jones of the South Austrlain Museum, foreword). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102982

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Native Tribes of South Australia

Verlag: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide

Erscheinungsdatum: 1997

Einband: Cloth Boards

Illustrator: (Foreword) Philip G. Jones

Auflage: Limited Ed.