MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS—UNJUST OPINIONS GENERALLY ENTERTAINED OF THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIVE—DIFFICULTIES AND DISADVANTAGES HE LABOURS UNDER IN HIS RELATIONS WITH EUROPEANS—AGGRESSIONS AND INJURIES ON THE PART OF THE LATTER IN GREAT DEGREE EXTENUATE HIS CRIMES
Chapter ii.
Physical appearance—dress&md
ash;character—habits
of life—meetings of
tribes—wars—dances
>—songs
Chapter III.
Food—how procured—how
prepared—limitation as to
age, etc.
Chapter IV.
Property in
land—dwellings—weapon
s—implements—government—customs—social
relations—marriage—no
menclature
Chapter V.
Ceremonies and superstitions—forms
of burial—mourning
customs—religious ideas—EMPIRICS,
etc.
Chapter vi.
Numbers—diseases—cause
of limited population—crimes
against
Europeans—amongst themselves—treatment
of each other in distribution
of
food, etc.
Chapter VII.
Language, dialects, customs, etc.—general
similarity throughout the
continent—causes of differences—route
by which the natives have
overspread the country, etc.
Chapter VIII.
Effects of contact with Europeans—attempts
at improvement and
civilization—account of
schools—defects of the
system
Chapter IX.
Suggestions for improvement of
system adopted towards the natives
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES OF NATIVE ORNAMENTS, WEAPONS, IMPLEMENTS, AND WORKS OF INDUSTRY
LIST OF PLATES.—VOL. II.
Distribution of flour at Moorunde, G. Hamilton
Arrival at King George’s Sound, J. Neill
Plate I.—Native Ornaments
Kangaroo Dance of King George’s Sound, J. Neill
Woodcut of a Standard used in the Dances performed
by day
Plate ii. Native Weapons
Plate III. Native Weapons
Plate IV. Native Implements
Plate V. Native Works of Industry
Mode of disposing of the Dead of the Lower Murray