The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago. Papuans.

£950 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The work is divided into twelve chapters. Apart from the first which serves as a general introduction, each chapter is devoted to a racial or island group. There is also a discussion on Melville Island and the Aborigines of North Australia. This book was intended as the first in a series of anthropological studies and is advertised as such, the second volume was to be The brown tribes of the Indian Archipelago . Ferguson, 9339.

• Year: 1853

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