Australian Museum Journal On circular and spiral incised ornament on Australian Aboriginal implements and weapons
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1897, Rec. Aust. Mus. 3(1): 1–6
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1897
- Title:
- On circular and spiral incised ornament on Australian Aboriginal implements and weapons
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 1
- End page:
- 6
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.3.1897.1113
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates i–ii
- Date published:
- 07 January 1897
- Cover date:
- 07 January 1897
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN; ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE: INDIGENOUS
- Digitized:
- 09 October 2008
- Reference number:
- 1113
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (89kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1121kb PDF)
Abstract
The more or less rare occurrence of this form of sculpture on the implements and weapons of our Aborigines will probably render a notice of several instances interesting. The late Mr. R. Brough Smyth remarked many years ago that - "Curved lines are rarely seen. Any attempt to represent a curve in all the specimens I have examined has been a failure." Mr. Andrew Lang even made a more sweeping statement when he wrote that the patterns used by the Australian Aborigines are such as can be produced without the aid of "spirals or curves or circles."