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Smyth, R. Brough.
THE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA - With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania.
Compiled from Various Sources for the Government of Victoria.
BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1878. Pp: (lxxii, 483) (vi, 456); 260mm x 180mm; 3.60kg. 407 fig, 1 map(fo).
Preface, introduction, appendices A to I, index.
Working copies only in original green-cloth boards (missing map replaced with photocopy). Cvr: fair. (wear and marking on cvr; some foxing, hinges split).
John Ferres, Government Printer, George Robertson, Melbourne, 1878.
(The first volume contains material dealing with the physical and mental characteristics of the Aborigines; distribution and population; birth, death and marriage; daily life; food, weapons and implements; ornamentation; canoes and fish hooks, and Aboriginal mythology.
The second volume deals at length with the languages of different tribes and with the Aborigines of Tasmania. It also includes the extensive appendices, most of which are concerned with the Aborigines of other regions of the continent)
(Volume 2 comes with a loosely inserted folded photocopy of the orginal map.
The main concentration of information is related to Aborigines of Victoria but other areas such as;
Tasmania, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland are discussed.
There are many illustrations of artefacts from all areas across Australia)
(Keywords: Ethnology, material culture, Australia, Aboriginal, Victoria, Wawoorong, Yaako-Yaako, Dieyerie, wonguim, murgon, gee-am, pillara, womerah).
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