Collection: Reference

A comprehensive source of information about Australia

For 125 years, or over 44 000 days, the Powerhouse Museum and its precursors have been Sydney's window on the changing world of science, technology and the applied arts.

This work illustrates the whole range of traditional handmade textiles from all corners of the globe. Every aspect of materials and techniques are covered, with summaries of characteristics, making and geographical distribution.

Extensive and detailed ethnography of the Yaraldi (a dialect unit of the Kukabrak/Narrinyeri); physical environment; economic geography; population and disease; social composition, territorial organisation and their neighbours; kinship, clan structure and hierarchy; marriage, polygamy and the sta...