THE
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL
THE BUFFALO HUNTERS’ TRIUMPH
H. BASEDOW, pinx.
THE
AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINAL
BY
HERBERT BASEDOW
M.A., M.D., Ph.D., B.Sc., F.G.S., etc.
SOMETIME CHIEF MEDICAL INSPECTOR AND CHIEF PROTECTOR OF ABORIGINES
IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY; SPECIAL ABORIGINES’ COMMISSIONER
FOR THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS; LOCAL CORRESPONDENT
ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND; HONORARY FELLOW ANTHROPOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF GÖTTINGEN, ETC.
With 146 Illustrations
Adelaide:
F. W. PREECE AND SONS
1925
Registered by the Postmaster-General for
transmission through the post as a book.
Wholly set up and printed in Australia
at The Hassell Press, Adelaide.
For some years past it had been my intention to write a progressiveseries of treatises on the Australian aboriginal, embodyingobservations as they were being made. As time woreon, however, my procrastination amassed so great a fund and sogreat a variety of notes that my original plan became impossible.The delay was not altogether through any fault of mine, butthrough a run of fortunate happenings which allowed me tospend the better part of every year in the great unboundedspaces of central and northern Australia, to live among theuncontaminated tribes, and to study Australian anthropology atthe fountain head. It was through my repeated and prolongedabsences from the city (and civilization in general) that I couldnot attend to the publication of any lengthy scientific papers.
Apart from my private and professional journeys, the followingare some of the better known expeditions I have accompaniedor led:
The Government North-West Expedition,
Government Expedition of Geological Exploration in theNorthern Territory,
Cruise of the s.s. “White Star” under His Excellency SirGeorge Le Hunte, Governor of South Australia,
Mineralogical Survey of the Flinders Ranges,
Sir Joseph Verco’s Deep Sea Dredging Expeditions,
Exploration of Melville and Bathurst Islands,
Expedition in Search of Munition Minerals in the NorthernKimberleys of Western Australia, officiallysubsidized by the Premier (Hon. John Scaddan,M.P.),
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