Yelta and Coranderrk Missions including Barak Reminiscences
'Early Days Among the Aborigines - the Story of Yelta and Coranderrk Missions', Ethel Shaw. No date, about 1940. 40pp.
Ranges from Shaw's earliest memories as a child in 1873 at Poonindie through to 26 years at Coranderrk. Features the work of Barak including 3 half-tone photographs, a chapter and 2 stories as told by him.
Also included are 2 other pamphlets: 1871 French Geographical Society extract 'Les Hommes dans L'Australasie' by Jules Marcou, 12pp. in French language. Ex collection of Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) official Queensland Geologist and explorer.
Secondly, The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in Recent Anthropological Research. W. Ramsey Smith, 1907. 22pp. + 24 photographic plates. An example of race theory via the study of Aboriginal bones, especially skulls. Cover detached with losses. (21x14cm)


Estimate $60-100