Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- The Aborigines of Tasmania
- Imprint
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London, 1890, xxvii, 224, cx pp
- Description
Assisted by Marion E. Butler ; with a chapter on the osteology by J.G. Garson and a preface by Edward B. Tylor ; with numerous autotype plates, from original drawings made by Edith May Roth
- Abstract
Physical characteristics, sickness, psychology, comparison with Australians; Law & government, religion, etiquette with strangers, scarification during puberty, weapons, sacred stones, uses of fire, food, hunting & fishing, native habitations, education of children - obedience, burials, bodily ornamentation - painting and; scarification, head coverings, astronomy, bark drawings, recreations, basketry, stone implements, rafts, infanticide not practised before advent of Europeans; Division of tribes, language information; Theories of origin; Vocabularies & chapter on Osteology listed separately under author in bibliography; Includes Tasmanian - English vocabulary of all known words; Description of Duterreaus portraits of Tasmanian Aborigines; Bibliography; Map shows locations where Aborigines have been sighted and gives Aboriginal place names.
Related Published resources
isRelated
- Roth, Henry Ling, The Aborigines of Tasmania (Halifax, England: F. King & Sons, 1899), xix, 228, ciii pp. Details