The Native Tribes of South Australia comprising The
Narrinyeri [Taplin]; The Adelaide Tribe [Wyatt]; The Encounter Bay Tribe
[Meyer]; The Port Lincoln Tribe [Schurmann]; The Dieyerie Tribe [Gason]; and
Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect [Bennett]
AUTHOR: Woods, J.D. [Editor]
PUBLISHING DETAIL: E.S. Wigg & Son. Adelaide.
EDITION & DATE: 1st Edition. 1879.
BINDING & PAGES: Hardback . xliv, 316pages.
SIZE & CONDITION: Large octavo size [16x24cm approx.]. Very Good condition.
Half Leather over blue sand-grain cloth boards. Title patch to spine. A variant
on the original publishers [Ferguson 13095]. Eight [8] coloured lithographs
with tissue guards [including frontispiece]. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Paper very lightly cracked at front hinge but
binding solid. Spine ends very lightly
rubbed. Includes tipped-in errata slip.
CONTENT: Comprises six papers; The Narrinyeri - by The Rev. George Taplin; The
Adelaide Tribe - by Dr. Wyatt, J.P.; The Encounter Bay Tribe - by The Rev. A
Meyer; The Port Lincoln Tribe - by The Rev. C.W. Schurmann; The Dieyerie Tribe
- by S. Gason; Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect [Northern Territory] - by
John Wm. Ogilvie Bennett. ncludes a
lengthy introduction by J. D. Woods and also Taplin’s Introductions to both the
first and second editions of his publication ‘The Narrinyeri’which was
originally published in 1873 and 1878.
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