Quest Under Capricorn

London: Butterworth Press, 1963. Quality Book Club. Green cloth octavo in illus green dust jacket and archival mylar wrap; 162 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations (some color); 23 cm Very good(+); spine bumped at head and foot, and lightly sunned; dust jacket is very good, frayed at edges, a few small missing pieces at ends of spine; creases to back free end paper. Very small area of price sticker removal leaf-thinning where sticker removed, to half-title verso. . hardcover.

Nourlangie - Oenpelli, rock paintings, X-ray figures, Mamaragan, the lighting man, human hands; description of bird and animal life; paintings at Obiri, drawings executed by the Mimi people; Maningrida - Gunavidji tribe - mission life, bark painting; Yurlunggur (giant trumphet), two natives add designs to it, myth relating to Yurlunggur, structure of Burada society, ceremony, (Big Sunday) ritual painting of body; film taken of ceremony; funeral rites at Melville Island; Borroloola to Alice Springs; Walbiri tribe, fire making, eating honey ants, ecology, body decoration for initiation ceremony, Dreamtime beliefs.