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The author states that the facts upon which their conclusions are based were substantially presented in the works of A. W. Howitt, including articles on Australian Class Systems, Message-Sticks and Messengers, Gesture Language, Anthropology in Australia, and Trade Centres in Australian Tribes [4]. The author also mentions that their views have been modified by wider experience and more mature consideration, but the broad facts and general deductions relied upon by Dr. Fison and themselves remain unaltered [4]. They note that the work of Spencer and Gillen independently supports these findings [4].
The author believes that Australian ancestors and Tasmanians must have reached the continent by some land connection, or a nearly complete land connection that could be crossed by vessels similar to bark canoes [5]. This belief is based on observations and information from a native informant regarding annual voyages and obtaining wives from the Australian mainland and New Guinea Islands, suggesting a mixture of Papuan and Australian ancestries [5]. The author then poses a question about the evidence for a former land connection between Australia and other lands to the north or…
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petent authorities according as they stand the test of criticism, of time, and of the accumulation of further knowledge. The conclusions to which this inquiry has led me may be doubtless modified by increased knowledge of new facts; but I venture to think, with some confidence, that the antiquity of occupation which I have postulated for the aborigines of both Australia and Tasmania in this continent will not be lessened. ↑ Davis, R. H., "The Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land," Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science. Tasmania and London, 1846. ↑ Fitzroy, Captain Robert, Narrative of the Surveying…
Id. chap. iv. p. 161. ↑ Tylor, E. B., "On the Tasmanians as Representatives of Palaeolithic Man," Journal Anthrop. Inst. November 1893. ↑ Op. cit. p. 146. ↑ M'Gillivray, op. cit. pp. 8l, 119, 125. ↑ Op. cit. vol. i. pp. 141-146. ↑ Stokes, J. Lort, Discoveries in Australia, etc., during the Voyage of H. M.S. "Beagle" in the years 1837-43, vol. i. p. 388. London, 1846. ↑ Op. cit. vol. i. p. 81. ↑ The Malay Archipelago. London, 1869. ↑ Guillemard, F. H. H., Australasia. Stanford Series, Cambridge, 1894. ↑ The Malay Archipelago. ↑ The Malay Archipelago. ↑ R. L. Jack and R. Etheridge, junior.…
stitute of Victoria, in which he points out the features referred to in this passage (vol. ii. p. 15). ↑ Johnston, Robt. M., Systematic Account of Geology of Tasmania , p. 365, Hobart, 1888. ↑ Op. cit. p. 377. ↑ Op. cit. p. 378. ↑ Codrington, Rev. R. H., The Melanesian Languages , p. 78. Oxford, 1885. ↑ Threlkeld, Rev. L. E., Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language , p. 82. Sydney, 1850. ↑ Crawfurd, John, Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, with a Preliminary Dissertation . London, 1852. ↑ Op. cit . p. ccvi. ↑ Op. cit . vol. i. p. 141. ↑ Op. cit . vol. i. p. 388. ↑ Earl,…
an Class Systems." A. W. Howitt, Journal Anthrop. Inst. 1888. "Notes on Australian Message-Sticks and Messengers." A. W. Howitt, Journal Anthrop. Inst. 1889. "On the Use of Gesture Language in Australian Tribes." A. W. Howitt, Aust. Ass. Ad. Sci. vol. ii. p. 637. 1890. "Anthropology in Australia." A. W. Howitt, Aust. Ass. Ad. Sci. vol. iii. p. 342. 1891. "On Trade Centres in Australian Tribes." A. W. Howitt, Aust. Ass. Ad. Sci. 1901. The facts upon which my conclusions are based were stated substantially in the above works. But in some cases my views have been modified by a wider experience…
considered to be Papuans, with a strong Australian mixture, which, judging from the example I saw, would be very marked. This mixture is easily to be understood when one considers the annual voyages by these people down the Cape York coast on the one side and across Torres Strait on the other, and that on these voyages, according to my native informant, they obtain wives from the Australian mainland and the New Guinea Islands. I am therefore led to believe that the Australian ancestors as well as Tasmanians must be held to have reached this continent by some land connection, or, at least, a…