| Description |
xiii, 1074 pages : illustrations, maps (some on endpapers) portrait ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Papers touch on all aspects of Aboriginal life; relationship with sealers, amusements and games, drawings, rock carvings, songs, chants and dances, information on language, grammars and vocabularies, gestures; personal adornment, ochre and ochre deposits; physical characteristics, mental ability, tools, weapons etc., water transport, fire making; foods, hunting; death customs, social and family life, spiritual beliefs, migrations and movements of tribes, middens, native wells; Aboriginal place names in Tasmania, causes of extinction of natives; map shows distribution of tribes with list; list of Aborigines, sealers |
| Analysis |
Morrison, Edgar |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Maps on lining papers |
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With supp. 1971 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
Robinson, George Augustus, -1866.
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Tasmanian Historical Research Association.
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Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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Ethnology -- Australia -- Tasmania.
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Ethnology -- Australia -- Tasmania.
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Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
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| SUBJECT |
Tasmania -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006700 -- To 1850
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Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
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Tasmania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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Tasmania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 -- 1803-1851 -- Sources
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Tasmania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 -- 1825-1850 -- Sources
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Plomley, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)
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Tasmanian Historical Research Association.
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| LC no. |
nun00226112 |
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