Physical description

Hard cover book, The Australian Race Vol 2.
Author: Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Publisher: John Ferres, Government Printer Melbourne Aus.
Date: 1886-1887
Light brown cloth hardcover and spine and blue edging to hard covers lettering in blue . The spine has a label with an inscription.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Label on spine cover with typed text R.A. 572.994 CUR
Paste down end page has sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library

Summary

The Australian Race Vol. 2 by Edward M. Curr is the second part of Curr’s four volume ethnographic survey of Aboriginal Australia. Volume two continues the language and vocabulary work from volume one, and goes on in expanding the comparative material available across more regions and groups of Aboriginal tribes or mobs.
The four volume set is a broad survey of Aboriginal peoples’ origins, languages, social customs, and movements across the Australian continent. Volume one is chiefly a comparative on various vocabularies and linguistic materials, with early observations used to identify and compare Aboriginal language groups.
This volume also documents specific rites and regional practices, as part of his broader attempt to synthesize ethnographic and linguistic data across Australia. The work is considered a foundational reference work although in today's modern world is is regarded as dated and eurocentric set of volumes as a reference in Australian Indigenous studies and anthropology.