AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

R A Cl Al. DEV EI.OPA I ENT SCIENTIST’S IN YESTIG A TTONS (Aust. and N.Z. (table). New York, Dee. 28. At Newhaven, il)r. Ales Hrdlicka, president of the American Anthropological Society addressed the organisation with reference to his investigations ill Africa, Asia, and Australia into racial 'developments. 'Me declare ed: “I find the Rhodesian skull of much scientific importance, hut sliill so enigmatic that no one knows what to malce of it.’’’

Dr. Hrdlicka, relering to his Australian studies, said: “I. was espcci-. ally interested in the • pure-blooded aborigines along the coast, and their particularly impressive nocturnal ceremonies.” • He ■described .*uv exceptional type from the Wyndlianv district ; lull-hloodod, full-coloured aborigines, with tow luyr, and said: ‘‘Austinlaw and Tasmanian aborigines’deserve to he classed as one'of the 1 fhhdamental races of ■mankind,- although not a race which shows a close connection. with om: ancestral stock, namely, not with negroes 'or Melanesians, but with the hid white people of the'post-glacial times.”