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The Aboriginal photographs of Baldwin Spencer

by Baldwin Spencer, John Mulvaney, Geoffrey Walker, Ron Vanderwal

This collection of photographs from expeditions to central and northern Australia depicts Aboriginal people from various tribal groups, including the Tiwi, Kakadu and Aranda, engaged in diverse activities, with annotations based on diaries and published works.

Accession 23014 ISBN 0670900176 Publisher Viking O'Neil
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