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'Of the Aborigines'...
Title : 'Of the Aborigines'... 'Of the Aborigines'...
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Creator : Beveridge, Peter
Source : Of the Aborigines inhabiting the Great Lacustrine and Riverine Depression of the Lower Murray, Lower Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan, and Lower Darling
Place Of Creation : Sydney
Date of creation : 1883
Format : Book
Dimensions : 212 x 139 x 7 mm
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Beveridge records in this paper details of Aboriginal lifestyle including sections on marriage, chieftainship, the children, treatment of the ill as well as the manufacture of canoes and their handling, making of nets for fishing and hunting, and games. Read a PDF of extracts from this publication.

His study was subsequently produced in a book The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina (1889).


Subjects
Period : 1852-1883
Region : Riverland and Murraylands
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