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Jacques. It is as much a perspective on the contemporary consumers <strong>of</strong> naive art as on the
unselfconscious suburban racism that used to delight in such objects. In encapsulating the
tradition, he ends it.
6 G.Dutton (1974) White on Black, London: Macmillan, p. 62.
7 B.Smith, ibid., p. 251 (both quotations).
8 G.Dutton (1974) Russell Drysdale, 2nd edn, London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 91–2.
9 C.Tatz (1979) Race Politics in Australia, Armidale: UNE Publishing Unit, p. 86.
10 <strong>The</strong>re is small amount <strong>of</strong> evidence to suggest that cannibalism was occasionally practised in
the area Bates wrote about. Infanticide victims and, more rarely, adults appear to have been
eaten in times <strong>of</strong> severe drought. See, for example, W.Hilliard (1976) <strong>The</strong> People In
Between, Seal, p. 1107. Bates’s claims on the matter were sensationalistic and mostly
wanton inventions.
11 I have relied heavily in this section on the work <strong>of</strong> Brian Elliott in (1967) <strong>The</strong> Landscape <strong>of</strong>
Australian Poetry, Cheshire, pp. 52–5. For an overview <strong>of</strong> sorts see J.J.Healy (1978)
Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, University <strong>of</strong> Queensland Press.
12 On the question <strong>of</strong> the part played by white guilt in Australian art, see Imants Tillers’s
chapter, ‘Locality Fails’.
13 G.Killington (1982) ‘Similar yet distinctive’, BA Hons thesis, Adelaide, p. 10.
14 See Jill Montgomery ‘Australia: the French discovery <strong>of</strong> 1983’, Art & Text 12–13,
Melbourne.
15 Edmund Carpenter (1976) Oh What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me, London: Paladin, pp.
94–5.
16 J.Roberts (1982) Massacres to Mining, intro. B.Boolitba, Dove.