The dendroglyphs, or “carved trees” of New South Wales.

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918. Series: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Ethnological series, no. 3 . Large quarto (305 x 240 mm), publisher s cloth-backed printed papered boards (sunned and lightly marked); hinges cracked (as usual); frontispiece portrait of Edmund Milne, Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways, New South Wales, pp. vii, 104, plus 39 unnumbered leaves of b/w photographic plates (including 1 folding map); pale foxing to the outermost leaves, else internally excellent, a good copy. An important census of all known Aboriginal carved trees in New South Wales. Terminology, early accounts, classification, glossary of terms; taphoglyphs, use as grave markers, method of carving, how situated, numbers to an interment, position in relation to graves, comparison of designs, comparison with designs on weapons implements, meaning, antiquity, distribution 64 N.S.W. specimens; described (with locations noted on map at end), others Goulburn River district, Wide Bay, Diamantina River; teleteglyphs, uses, how carved, sizes, sites, number to a particular site, position on bora ground, designs, distribution 32 sites in N.S.W. described (locations noted on map), others Queensland; burial posts Melville Bathurst Islands; comparison with other races as source of culture; Appendix III stone structures, circles lower Murray River, Lake Macquarie, Mount Elephant plains, Coopers Creek, Rawlinson Range; mounds heaps between Glenelg River Hanover Bay, Gordons Spr

• Binding: Hardcover

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