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Book

Author
Roth, Herny Ling
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.

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  • Roth, Henry Ling, The Aborigines of Tasmania (Halifax, England: F. King & Sons, 1899), xix, 228, ciii pp. Details

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260