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Author Barrett, Charles, 1879-1959.

Title Blackfellows : the story of Australia's native race / by Charles Barrett
Published London : Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1942
London, U.K. : Cassell, 1942

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 ADPML SPPAM  305.89925 Bar/Bts  LIB USE ONLY
Description 64 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 23 cm
Summary Ornaments and vanity - cicatrization, general physical appearance; brief history of white contact, Census 1940, welfare, Tasmanian Aboriginal history; general life of natives of Arnhem Land; mention of the massacre at Caledon Bay and Balamumu tribe; general social organisation; teaching of young children; disinterment ceremony (Crocodile Island), recreations; after death beliefs weapons, implements and canoes, making of dillybags
Notes WARNING: The following contains images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Restricted Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Ethnology -- Australia.
Primitive societies.