A detailed survey of the native peoples of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand explores how diverse tribes lived, on the land and at sea, with a focus on daily life, customs, and belief.
This edition of The Native Races of Australasia covers Aboriginal Australia, the Tasmanians, and the Maori of New Zealand, presenting portraits of people, practices, and the world they inhabited.
- Learn how tribes organized themselves, hunted, and moved across vast landscapes.
- Discover body art, totems, and the social rules that shaped marriages, friendships, and group roles.
- See how daily life, music, dance, shelters, tools, and clothes reflected culture and environment.
- Read about the changes brought by contact with settlers and explorers, and how traditions endured or transformed.
Ideal for readers of ethnography and history who want a clear, illustrated glimpse into the cultures of these Pacific peoples.