Australian plants as Aboriginal tools / Philip A. Clarke.
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Text[Kenthurst, N.S.W.] : Rosenberg Publishing, 2012Description: 374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781921719493 (hardback)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture
- Plants -- Australia
- Plants
- Material culture - Bark objects
- Material culture - String and rope making
- Technology - Containers
- Technology - Fibre
- Technology - Tools
- Technology - Utensils
- Technology - Wood
- Weapons
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Costume and clothing - Armbands, bracelets etc
- Art - Crafts - Baskets and basketmaking
- Art - Sculpture - Carving
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Human-plant relationships
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Plants, Useful -- Australia
- Plants
- Ethnobotany -- Australia
- Aborigines
- Heilpflanzen
- Nutzpflanzen
- Verarbeitung
- Ethnobotanik
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnobotany
- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
- Aboriginal Australians -- Food
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Ethnobotany
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- History
- Human-plant relationships -- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- WILD PLANTS
- TOOLS
- ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
- Australian
- 333.9530899915 23
- QK46.5.H85 C58 2012
- 2013 G-314
- QK 98.4.A8
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 333.9530899915 AUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | RBG00021566 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-338) and index.
Ch. 1. Plants into artefacts -- ch. 2. The Australian Aboriginal Toolkit -- ch. 3. Ephemeral Subsistence tools -- ch. 4. Camp life ephemera -- ch. 5. Working with green timber -- ch. 6. Sticking things together -- ch. 7. Universal wrappers of bark and broad-leaves -- ch. 8. From fibre to object -- ch. 9. Plants to decorate -- ch. 10. Aboriginal artefacts in transition -- ch. 11. The 'new' material culture -- ch. 12. Plants, artefacts and cultural identity.
Summary: Australian plants have provided the Aborigines with weapons, tools, shelter, watercraft, ceremonial objects, clothing, ornaments and paint. This book shows how the hunter gatherers lived and similarities and differences of plants uses across Australia.
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