Description
Author: Simpson Colin
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Antiquarian Books
ISBN: A1441
A layman’s picture of the Commonwealth of Australia-National Geographic-Smith-sonian Institution Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 is presented by a program writer of the Australian Broadcasting Commission who joined it to record documentary features for the radio. He gives a lively account of the scientists and their work in all the branches of research involved; he presents a graphic portrait of the Black Adam of northern Australia as he combines history, legend , rituals and ceremonials, taboos and initiations. There are reports on the aboriginal skills, dances, musical instruments, sex, married and tribal life, ceremonial objects and totems on the discoveries of the cave paintings and their stories, hunting the water buffalo, rain making, body markings. There is the life story of a Kakadu tribesman the dying culture of the Tiwis, the experiences at Snake Bay and Delissaville and discussion of present and future policy for the aborigines, whose numbers are increasing. Fascinating material from every angle with photographs and drawings that really enlighten the text.
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