Back in the Stone Age. The Natives of Central Australia
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1936.
Quarto, xviii, [iv], 162 pages plus 23 full-page plates and a map on the front flyleaf.
Cloth a little marked and lightly spotted; boards slightly bowed; scattered foxing (heavier at the edges, endpapers and adjacent leaves); still a very good copy.
The author 'lived and worked in the Centre as pioneer and contractor' from the beginning of the 1880s; this is a 'very detailed and intimate description of the life, personal and tribal, of the Central Australian natives; their characteristics, beliefs and superstitions; their tools and weapons; together with a discussion of the results of their contact with the whites, their present condition, and their probable fate' (quoting the blurb from a dustwrapper we once catalogued). Fifteen of the plates, of Aboriginal subjects, are by Frank Gillen; the balance, identified localities, are by H.H. Finlayson.
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