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 ...

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 ...

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 declaration was not the only form of protest by the Australian Aborigines: last January 26, thousands of natives took to the streets to ask the government to consider the instances of their ...

Meanwhile, the head of the Department for the Protection of Natives, known as Devil ... As amphibians, they loathe the dry climate of the Australian outback, which is why skerricks of humankind ...

The tour faced strong opposition from the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines in Victoria ... "They are the first Australian natives who have visited this country on such a novel ...