Origin of the Australian Race
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Origin of the Australian Race
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The work Origin of the Australian Race represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Manuscript, Books.
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- Origin of the Australian Race
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- Initiation - Circumcision
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Weapons - Boomerangs
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Papuans
- Animals
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- Human biology - Physical anthropology - Hair characteristics
- Human biology - Physical anthropology - Craniology
- Costume and clothing - Cloaks and coats
- Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets
- Summary
- Views of early explorers re natives of Western Australia; discusses theories concerning origin by Huxley, Keane, Haeckel, Wallace, Flower, Davis, Curr, Mathew, Stephens, Mathews, Eyre, Thomson, Schoetensack, Bonwick, Tylor, Howitt, Spencer, Topinard, Semon, Klaatsch, King, Ramsay Smith, Gregory; resemblance between Aborigines & Papuans; countries where boomerangs occur; age of Continent; Cretaceous age & its fauna & flora; connections between Australia & Tasmania; alliance between Tasmania & S. Western people (skin cloaks, axe handles, other links); descriptions of Tasmanians, Dravidian theory; Malay infusion, introduction of circumcision; variety of types amongst central circumcised people; purity of type of S. Western people due to isolation; cranial measurements (W.A. natives, mainly from Capel, Vasse, Perth & Gingin); forearm & hand measurements; skulls - Kimberleys, Murchison, S.W.; specimens of hair - S.W. (examined by J. Burton Cleland, written up by E. Paget Thurston, 1908)
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