115 Rare Old Books on Aboriginal Australia history culture language Dreamtime tribes art mythology ceremony kinship - Instant PDF Downloads

THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 115 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.

Discover the ancient aboriginal tribes of Australia. Study their customs, manners, beliefs, religion and way of life. Explore their rites, ceremonies, weapons and traditional methods of hunting. Learn the languages they speak and explore the organisation of families and various tribes. Read about the discovery and settlement of Australia as well as the first-hand experiences of the colonists with native aborigines. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Australia, its ancient history and indigenous people. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This is a DIGITAL item! This superb compilation of 82 vintage books on PDF provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in English with several additional texts in original Sanskrit.


*** Full List of Books Included ***

A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of western Australia - G. Moore (1842)
A short history of Australia - E. Scott (1916)
Aborigines of Australia; their ethnic position and relations - F. Fraser (189-)
Account Respecting Beliefs of Australian Aborigines (article) (1896)
Across Australia Vol. 1 - B. Spencer (1912)
Across Australia Vol. 2 - B. Spencer (1912)
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland - C. Lumholtz (1889)
An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie - being an account of their language, traditions, and customs - L. Threlkeld (1892)
Austral English - a dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those Aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language - E. E. Morris (1898)
Australia - W. H. Lang (1908)
Australia and homeward - D. V. Lucas (1888)
Australia twice traversed... being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia Vol. 1 - E. Giles (1889)
Australia twice traversed... being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia Vol. 2 - E. Giles (1889)
Australian aborigines - the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia - J. Dawson (1891)
Australian grasses and pasture plants - with notes on native fodder shrubs and trees - F. Turner (1921)
Australian heroes and adventurers - unknown author (1899)
Ceremonial Stones Used by the Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1909)
Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in western Australia; and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines - G. F. Moore (1884)
Divisions of Queensland Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1898)
Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1900)
Eaglehawk and Crow; a study of the Australian aborigines including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages - J. Mathew (1899)
Early Australian voyages Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier - J. Pinkerton (1886)
Early days in North Queensland - E. Palmer (1903)
Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines - W. E. Roth (1897)
Four Years In Queensland - E. B. Kennedy (1870)
Grammar of the Narrinyeri tribe of Australian aborigines - G. Taplin (1880)
Guide to the Australian ethnological collection exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria - B. Spencer (1922)
History of Australian bushranging - C. White (1900)
Journals of expeditions of discovery into central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 Vol. 2 - E. J. Eyre (1845)
Kamilaroi and Kurnai group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines - L. Fison (1880)
Kámilarói, and other Australian languages - W. Ridley (1875)
Kamilaroi, Dippil, and Turrubul languages spoken by Australian aborigines - W. Ridley (1866)
Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia - N. W. Thomas (1906)
Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia Vol. 1 - B. Spencer (1912)
Language of the aborigines of the Colony of Victoria and other Australian districts - D. Bunce (1859)
Lawrence Struilby, or, Observations and experiences during twenty-five years of bush-life in Australia - J. Graham (1863)
Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc. (1898)
Memoirs of the life and labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, senior chaplain of New South Wales - J. B. Marsden (1858)
Message-Sticks Used by the Aborigines of Australia - R. H. Mathews (article) (1897)
Mythes et légendes d'Australie études d'ethnographie et de sociologie - A. van Gennep (1906)
Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia - B. Spencer (1914)
Natives of Australia - N. W. Thomas (1906)
Northmost Australia Vol. 1 - R. L. Jack (1921)
Northmost Australia Vol. 2 - R. L. Jack (1921)
Note on the aboriginal races of Australia - F. Nightingale (1865)
Notes on the aborigines of New South Wales - R. H. Mathews (1907)
Notes on the aborigines of New South Wales - R. Hill (1892)
Notes on the aborigines of Western Australia - C. G. Nicolay (1886)
On the Aborigines of Australia (article) - A. Oldfield (1865)
Our Australian cousins - J. Inglis (1880)
Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia - C. Teichelmann (1840)
Papers relative to the massacre of Australian aborigines (1839)
Phallic Rites and Initiation Ceremonies of the South Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1900)
Primitive hunters of Australia - W. D. Hambly (1936)
Queensland, Australia; a highly eligible field for emigration, and the future cotton-field of Great Britain, with a disquisition on the origin, manners, and customs of the aborigines - J. D. Lang (1861)
Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1899 - W. H. Corfield (1921)
Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia Vol. 1 - B. Spencer (1896)
Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia Vol. 3 - B. Spencer (1896)
Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia Vol. 4 - B. Spencer (1896)
Richardson's Journal of an Expedition to Cape York - Royal Geographical Society (1866)
Rock Carvings and Paintings of the Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1897)
Savage life and scenes in Australia and New Zealand Vol. 1 - G. F. Angas (1847)
Sociology of the Aborigines of Western Australia (article) - R. H. Mathews (1905)
Some Burial Customs of the Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1909)
Statement of the origin, condition, and prospects, of the German mission to the aborigines at Moreton Bay - C. Eipper (1841)
Tales about America and Australia - S. G. Goodrich (1847)
The aborigines in Australia - G. S. Lang (1865)
The aborigines of Australia - M. B. Hale (1889)
The aborigines of Australia - R. Flanagan (1888)
The aborigines of Australia - R. Sadlier (1883)
The aborigines of New South Wales - J. Fraser (1892)
The aborigines of Tasmania. Pt. II. The skeleton - W. Turner (1910)
The Aborigines of Tasmania - H. L. Roth (1899)
The aborigines of Tasmania - J. G. Garson (1899)
The Aborigines of Tasmania, an extinct race - Royal College of Surgeons of England (1879)
The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina - P. Beveridge (1889)
The aborigines of Victoria with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania Vol. 1 - R. B. Smyth (1878)
The aborigines of Victoria with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania Vol. 2 - R. B. Smyth (1878)
The aborigines of Western Australia - A. F. Calvert (1892)
The Australian aboriginal and the Christian church - H. Pitts (1914)
The Australian explorers; their labours, perils, and achievements being a narrative of discovery, from the landing of Captain Cook to the centennial year - G. Grimm (1888)
The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines - C. Smith (1880)
The Calvert scientific exploring expedition. (Australia, 1896) - J. G. Hill (1905)
The central state. South Australia its history, progress and resources - D. J. Gordon (1903)
The coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829 - I. Lee (1906)
The discovery of Australia - G. A. Wood (1922)
The early settlers - Australia's story - H. Strang (1910)
The family among the Australian aborigines, a sociological study - B. Malinowski (1913)
The family chain; marriage and relationships of native Australian tribes - J. Hopkins (1914)
The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South Australian aborigines - G. Taplin (1879)
The history of Australia from 1606 to 1888 - A. Sutherland (1892)
The history of discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, from the earliest date to the present day Vol. 1 - W. Howitt (1865)
The history of discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, from the earliest date to the present day Vol. 2 - W. Howitt (1865)
The history of New South Wales ... with the customs and manners of the natives - G. Barrington (1802)
The history of South Australia - E. Hodder (1893)
The illustrated history of Methodism - With special chapters on the discovery and settlement of Australia, the missions to the South Sea Islands, New Zealand and the aborigines - J. Colwell (1904)
The Mika or Kulpi operation of the Australian aboriginals - S. Anderson (1896)
The native races of Australasia Australia - Tasmania - New Zealand - W. D. Hambly (1920)
The native tribes of Central Australia - B. Spencer (1899)
The Native Tribes of South Australia - G. Taplin (1879)
The native tribes of South-East Australia - A. W. Howit (1904)
The natural history of man - Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, American, Asia and Ancient Europe - J. G. Wood (1880)
The northern tribes of central Australia - B. Spencer (1904)
The Origin, Organization and Ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1900)
The prehistoric arts, manufacturers, works, weapons, etc., of the aborigines of Australia - T. Worsnop (1897)
The social organization of Australian tribes - A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1931)
The stone axe of Burkamukk - M. G. Bruce (1922)
The Wombya Organization of the Australian Aborigines (article) - R. H. Mathews (1900)
Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837) - T. Petrie (1904)
Tracts Relative to the Aborigines (1843)
Tropic days - E. J. Banfield (1918)
Two representative tribes of Queensland with an inquiry concerning the origin of the Australian race - J. Mathew (1910)
Vocabulary of the Language Spoken by the Aborigines of the Southern and Eastern Portions of .... South Australia - H. Meyer (1853)
Western Australia Its History and Progress, the Native Blacks, Towns, Country Districts, etc. - J. C. Davies (1902)
William Buckley, the wild white man and his Port Phillip black friends - J. Bonwick (1856)


An absolute must for anyone with an interest in the ancient history of Australia and in particular its native aborigines – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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