Two Representative Tribes of Queensland. With an Inquiry concerning the Origin of the Australian Race
London, Fisher Unwin, 1910.
Octavo, 256 pages plus 6 plates and a map.
Cloth a little flecked; spine lightly sunned; top corners and rear top edge a little bumped; endpapers offset; an excellent copy.
Provenance: Ian Mudie, with his ownership signature (March 1940) on the front free endpaper (with one other: 'Edmund D. Gill'). Ian Mayelston Mudie (1911-1976), the Adelaide-born poet: 'A deep love of the land and its inhabitants are recurrent themes in his poetry; so, too, are harsh criticisms of the Europeans for the way they treated the indigenous people and desecrated the environment. At this time Mudie's nationalism and concern for Aborigines found an outlet in a loose association with Rex Ingamells and the Jindyworobak poets' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). We think the other signature pre-dates Mudie's, but the ADB has an interesting entry for Edmund Dwen Gill (1908-1986), palaeontologist, geomorphologist and museum administrator, born in New Zealand, but in Victoria from the early 1930s.
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