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Author Bleakley, J. W. (John William), 1879-1957

Title The aborigines of Australia : their history, their habits, their assimilation / J. W. Bleakley
Edition First edition
Published Brisbane [Australia] : Jacaranda, 1961

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.0049915 Ble  AVAILABLE
 MELB  994.0049915 Ble/Aoa  AVAILABLE
Description 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Origin theories, physical & mental characteristics, types of shelters, foods, weapons, implements & utensils, spiritual & social life, initiation, grouping, magic & medicine, death & mourning, burial; earliest contacts, attempts to Christianize, early missions - all States; Queensland - administration & assimilation difficulties, evolution of Mission work, early settlement; experiences in other States; health, diseases, endemic & epidemic (North Queensland, Torres Strait Islands); notes on uniform Commonwealth policy, part Aborigines, Census
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page 359
Event 1961
Notes Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Ethnology -- Australia.
Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations.
Torres Strait Islanders -- History.
Torres Strait Islanders -- Missions.
Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 11916291