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Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. Ex-Library. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 210mm x 270mm. All the usual library additions and remnants. Covers have moderate wear. Spine not creased. Text and plates clean. Binding sound. 165pp.
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Bush Toys Aboriginal Children at Play Paperback - 2000
by Claudia Haagen
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- Title Bush Toys Aboriginal Children at Play
- Author Claudia Haagen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Language ENG
- Publisher Aboriginal Studies Pr, Canberra
- Date September 2000
- ISBN 9780855752453
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Bush Toys: Aboriginal Childeren at Play
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Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1994. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Claudia Haagen, says in her introduction to this book. "It is through the toys collected over time, combined with fragments of historical commentary, that we can now account for an aspect of Australian childhood that has escaped notice ...At the outset, this work was prompted by the necessity to document a collection ...The outcome here is in fact a composite record, enhancing both an understanding of the particular and at the same time indicating a continuum alive with diversity". Begun as a catalogue of the collections of the National Museum of Australia, this 'ensemble of texts' grew into a fascinating account of a little-known aspect of Australian social history, surveying material from collections all over Australia. Each section of text is accompanied by apposite quotes from a huge variety of written records from sites all over Australia. From spears, shields and throwing sticks to…
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Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994. Softcover. FINE!. AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL From spears, shields and throwing sticks to hockey, marbles and fireworks, this beautifully illustrated and cleverly structured book builds for the reader a unique picture of the lives of Aboriginal children in the past and present, and adds significantly to records of Aboriginal society then and now. A comprehensive literature survey of descriptions of Aboriginal children's toys and games; tables of bibliographic references to types of toys, and locations of toys in museum collections in Australia.x, 165 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm. FIRST EDITION.Bibliography: p. 111-125. #170423Toys -- Australia. | Aboriginal Australians -- Games. | Children, Aboriginal Australian. | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. | Play -- Social aspects -- Australia. | Recreation - Play - Children. | Australia. Aboriginal Australians…
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