Australian Aborigines: the Languages and Customs of several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. By James Dawson. (Melbourne: Robertson; London: Macmillan and Co ...

IN 1899 Spencer and Gillen, writing about the Arunta tribe of Australia, declared that the natives possessed no ... 237) he says that for the Australian native sexual intercourse "positively ...

Thus "the Aborigines" are a group "formed since ... With regard to the latter, he rightly stresses the pivotal role of the Australian Natives Association in promoting the cause of federation ...

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes ... the paintings are “touched” (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich’s Ethnographical ...

When the First Fleet appeared in Sydney Cove in 1788, carrying British convicts and settlers, coastal-dwelling Aborigines were ... naval officer wrote that "the natives, alarmed, ran along the ...

Meanwhile, in the Western Australian desert, a group of Aborigines were still living as their ancestors had done for thousands of years, with no inkling of a world beyond the expanse of sand and ...

The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to ...

Incidentally, the Taft Gardens are a distinctive horticultural venue in their own right, featuring Australian, South African, and California natives. You can arrange a tour at taftgardens.org ...