Australian Aboriginal art; the Louis A. Allen collection. An exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California

by Albert B. Elsasser (Joint Author.)

Other authorsLouis Allen (Collector and Contributor), Vivian Paul (Joint Author.), E.R. Prince (Photographer), R. W. Wharton (Photographer), R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley) (Host Institute)
Paperback, 1969

Status

Available

Call number

709.01/1

Tags

/Australia Collection/, /Australia - Aborigines - art/, /Aborigines - art/, /Coll. - Louis A, /Coll. - Louis A. Allen - Australian Aboriginal art/, R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology see Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - Berkeley

Genres

Collections

#Location - John's Library, Catalogs - Anthropology and ethnology

Publication

Berkeley: R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, 1969. (18 p., 28 b/w ill., map, bibliography; 23.5 x 21.5 cm)

Subjects

Allen, Louis A. Art collections
Art, Aboriginal Australian Exhibitions

Language

English

Physical description

18 p.; 23.5 cm

Local notes

Catalog for an exhibiiton:
1. Berkeley, California, USA: R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California: 1969-01-17 to 1969-08-25.
The museum was renamed in 1991 Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Please note there are at least 3 catalogues showing the Louis A. Allen of Australian Aboriginal art

CONTENTS
Acknoledgments by the Collector -- Louis A. Allen

Australian Aboriginal Art
Great Ancestors - Culture Heroes
Ancestral Beings
Ceremony: Initiation - Circumcision
Totemism
The Mortuary Complex
Ceremony: Increase Ritual
The Spirit World
Narration

Selected Reading
Map

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