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.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Ethnology -- Australia.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Government relations.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- History.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Missions.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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LC no. |
11916291 |
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