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The abstract art of the Aranda
Anthropos • 55 • Published In 1960 • Pages: 345-354 , 3 plates
By: Adam, Leonhard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The article describes a painted rock wall at QUIURNPA and rock engravings near Temple Bar Creek, central Australia. Adam discusses the aesthetic issues of the paintings, rather than their social context. Some introductory general observations on Aranda art as a whole are given in the first section.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Decorative art
- Representative art
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Art Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leonhard Adam
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)