The Native Tribes of Central Australia

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. IN the following pages we have endeavoured to set forth an account of thecustoms and social organisation of certain of the tribes inhabiting CentralAustralia.It has been the lot of one of us to spend the...
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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. IN the following pages we have endeavoured to set forth an account of thecustoms and social organisation of certain of the tribes inhabiting CentralAustralia.It has been the lot of one of us to spend the greater part of the past twentyyears in the centre of the continent, and as sub-protector of the Aborigineshe has had exceptional opportunities of coming into contact with, and ofgaining the confidence of, the members of the large and important Aruntatribe, amongst whom he has lived, and of which tribe both of us, it may beadded, are regarded as fully initiated members.In the month of July, 1894, we met at Alice Springs, when the scientificexpedition organised by Mr. W. A. Horn, of Adelaide, visited that part ofthe continent, and it was then that one of us gave to Dr. E. C. Stirling, theanthropologist of the expedition, notes which have since been published inthe anthropological section of the report on the work of the expedition.This report included the results of the information gained up to that timewith regard to the Central tribes, and in respect to certain points, we have,to some extent, had to traverse the same ground in order to make ouraccount as complete as possible; but it was very evident that in regard to thecustoms and organisation of the tribe we were then only on the threshold ofthe inquiry, and at a subsequent time we determined to carry on the work.