Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria (Classic Reprint) written by Baldwin Spencer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria In consequence of the peculiar interest which attaches to the Australian aborigines a special gallery has been devoted to the exhibition of their weapons, implements, and cere monial objects. These have been arranged so as to show, as far as possible, series of objects belonging to tribes from the various parts of the continent. For example, the forms. Of shields used in different tribes are shown in one case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.