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Journal Article
- Title
- Hermann Klaatsch and the Tiwi, 1906
- In
- Aboriginal history journal
- Imprint
- vol. 10, ANU Press, Canberra, 1986, pp. 59-77
- Url
- http://doi.org/10.22459/AH.10.2011.06
- Description
[CONTENT WARNING: Australian First Nation people, communities and others should be aware that this publication contains language and stories that may be challenging as well as images and names of deceased persons.]
Includes: a detailed summary of Klaatsch's 1904-1907 visit to Australia and Java [pages 59-64] and a useful list of Klaatsch's relevant publications [page 76].
- Abstract
"The following early account [pages 65-76] of the Tiwi was written by Hermann Klaatsch, a German physical anthropologist, who visited the Tiwi in 1906, one of the 'major points' of his three years of travels in Australia. In the report, originally written in German, Klaatsch gives us a lively and informative narrative of his stay among the Tiwi of Melville Island, whom he calls 'Melvillians'. He refers to many facets of their life and culture and he is the first to draw attention to the Tiwi graveposts.
Klaatsch's account of Melville Island forms part of his final report ('Schlussbericht'), the outcome in writing of a talk he delivered to the Berlin Anthropological Society after returning from Australia. It is contained in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, where his various reports and letters from Australia were published.1 During his travels Klaatsch was financially supported by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften)"
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- Basedow, H., 'Anthropological notes on the western coast tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 31 (1907), 1-62. Details
- King, Phillip Parker, Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia performed between the years 1818 and 1822 by Captain Phillip King, 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1826). Details
- MacGillivray, John, Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake: commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S., etc., during the years 1846 - 1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisade Archipelago, etc., to which is added the account of Mr E. B. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the cape York Peninsula, 2 vols (London: T. & W. Boone, 1852). Details
- Spencer, W. B.; and Gillen, F. J., The native tribes of Central Australia (London: Macmillan, 1899), 671 pp, https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2093212. Details
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