Palaeolithic kodj axe of the Aborigines and its distribution in Australia : results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939.

A$30 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Adelaide : Hassell Press, 1951. Reprint From Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. IX, No.3 and No. 4, June 30th, 1950 and June 30th, 1951 . Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 257-274; 371-374; with a total of 18 line-drawn figures and 1 photographic plate illustrating four aspects of a kodj axe; a fine copy. The kodj of the natives of Western Australia is a wooden handled stone implement of palaeolithic facies, used as an axe (p. 257).

• Binding: Hardcover

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