Australian Aborigines [cover title]. Australian Aborigines - a Study in Contrasts ...
Adelaide, Aborigines' Friends' Association, [late 1930s?, reprinted from the AFA Report].
Octavo, [16] pages with 21 plates plus text printed inside both covers.
Pictorial wrappers (bright orange textured paper); archives library stamp on the front cover and the title-page; an excellent copy.
The first six pages contain captioned plates depicting 'Uncivilized natives, living under stone age conditions'; the next nine pages 'Civilized natives, who have come under mission influence', and the last page contains text by David Unaipon: 'An Aboriginal Pleads for His Race'. Printed inside the front cover is 'Our Duty to the Aborigines' by Reverend J.H. Sexton, and inside the rear cover are selections from AFA literature.
Item #65591
Price (AUD):
$125.00