The Australian Aboriginal
Adelaide, F.W. Preece and Sons, 1925.
Octavo, xx, 422 pages with 57 illustrations plus a colour frontispiece and 88 plates (all but two of them are from photographs by the author).
Gilt-pictorial maroon cloth; covers slightly bowed; edges foxed; flyleaves offset, with slight silverfish loss to the front flyleaf; scattered light foxing (moderate on a few early and late leaves); overall a very good copy.
Sometime Chief Medical Inspector and Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory, and Special Aborigines' Commissioner for the Federal and State Governments, 'anthropologist, geologist, explorer and medical practitioner ... [This publication was] a positive contribution at a time when little detailed material was available to the public. Basedow was not a socio-cultural anthropologist and was not in a position to provide a systematic analysis of aboriginal life. However, the book encapsulated his [first-hand] experience with the race over twenty years' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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