Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley [Signed by author]

Toowong (Qld): Takarakka Nowan Kas Publications. 2000. 1st ed thus, oblong folio, pp.x, 464, profusely illustrated with over 620 colour photographs and 2,000 illustrations, maps. Original boards, colour plate laid onto front of imitation crocodile leatherette boards, decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name ffep, loosely inserted fold-out colour brochure. Custom made lined slip-case with image on card (Aboriginal painting) recessed onto front. Signed by author. Near fine condition. Scarce and significant study of Kimberley rock art and finely painted human figures known as Bradshaw, named after explorer and pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw, first European to sight and record them in 1891. The aboriginal name, Gwion Gwion, for these figures comes from the Ngarinyin people. In 1996 Grahame Walsh discovered a Bradshaw painting partly covered by a fossilised Mud Wasp nest, estimated to be approximately 17,000 years old. Lavishly illustrated throughout, with hundreds of illustrations and colour plates. 1st edition thus. Boards in slip-case.