Life Among the Aborigines |
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User Review - nadineeg - LibraryThing"To know a people one must live with them" is a saying that applies to the aborigines of Australia. Thus out of forty years amidst them has this book been written. While living and working with the ... Read full review
Contents
Chapter Page I The Contact Begins II | 11 |
HII Karamalal Tribe | 17 |
Medical and Superstition | 21 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Life Among the Aborigines |
| Author | William Edward Harney |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | R. Hale, 1961 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | Oct 2, 2018 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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