127124 THOMSON, DONALD F.
- Bindibu Country.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 172; frontispiece map, 8 pages of colour plates (17 illustrations), 16 pages of b/w. plates (36 illustrations), 2 full-paged maps, appendices, notes, references, glossary of Aboriginal words, index, bound in original orange cloth, title lettered in white on spine and front board, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; Nelson; 1975. Donald Thompson's expeditions and study of the Bindibu people, the last of the Aborigines living a traditional life in the desert. Their life austere their material culture simple; they wear no clothes, sleep naked in the intense cold of the desert night, and rear some of the fattest babies in the world. Thompson studied their social organisation, accompanied them on food-gathering expeditions, recorded their songs, photographed and observed their activities. With William Hosmer he collected an enormous number of zoological and botanical specimens. Click here to Order
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