Notes on the Tasmanian Aborigines

Quaker Collection, Cotton - Edward (1856) Notes on the Tasmanian Aborigines. University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection, Australia. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

'Notes on the Tasmanian aborigines by Mr. Edward Cotton of Kelvedon, near Swansea, East Coast of Tasmania' apparently in James Backhouse Walker's hand. It is among his research notes about the aborigines and explains how they made fire, and visited Maria Island using logs as transport.

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Keywords:	Quaker, Religious Society of Friends, Tasmania, religious history, social history, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, VDL, Edward Cotton, Tasmanian Aborigines, Kelvedon,Swansea, James Backhouse Walker, fire making, Maria Island, logs, boats,Oyster Bay pine
Subjects:	440000 Philosophy and Religion > 440200 Religion and Religious Traditions 430000 History and Archaeology > 430100 Historical Studies
Collections:	Quaker Collection
ID Code:	1887
Deposited By:	Gillian Ward
Deposited On:	19 Sep 2007
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2008 16:02
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