Savage Life in Central Australia
Brisbane: A. Green, 2009. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. [2] [iv] xi [xii] [1] 184 : 90 b/w illustrations : limited to 250 copies prepared from Savage Life in Central Australia, Horne, G. & Aiston, G. MacMillan: London, 1924 first edition : red cloth spine over cream matt laminated paper boards : front board vignette : hand bound and section sewn : colour fold-out map, showing the Location of Aboriginal Tribes east of Lake Eyre. Fine. Item #15531
First hand account by George (Poddy) Aiston (1879-1943), policeman and ethnographer, who closely observed the Wonkonguru (Wangkangurru) of the Eastern Lake Eyre District. According to the ADB, "From 1912 to 1923 he was based at the Birdsville Track outpost of Mungeranie and was also a sub-protector of Aborigines. He distributed rations, levied bore fees, inspected stock, collected dingo scalps, registered births, deaths and marriages, processed mail and issued licences. In addition, he studied the customs, beliefs and technology of the local people, and was assigned the Red Ochre mura (Dreaming). An authority on Central Australian Aborigines, particularly the Wangkangurru of eastern Lake Eyre, he photographed secular and ceremonial activities, as well as Birdsville Track life and landscapes."
Allen Green is a private Brisbane publisher specialising in creating facsimiles of Australian Unit Histories and early Australiana.
Price: $175.00