RACIAL DEVELOPMENT.
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. BI CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. - At Newhaven, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, president of the American Anthropological Society, addressed the organisation in reference to his investigations in Africa, Asia and Australia into racial developments. He declared: “I find the Rhodesian skull of much scientific importance, but still so enigmatic that none knows what to make of it.” Dr. Hrdlicka, referring to his Australian studies, said: “I was especially interested in the pure-blooded aborigines along the coast and their particularly impressive nocturnal ceremonies.” He described an exceptional trip from the Wyndham district, where he saw full-blooded and full-coloured aborigines with tow hair. He said: “The Australian and Tasmanian aborigines deserve to bo classed as one of the fundamental races of mankind, although not a race which shows a close connection with our ancestral stock, namely', not with negroes or Melanesians, but with old white people of past glacial times.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 December 1925, Page 5
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152RACIAL DEVELOPMENT. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 December 1925, Page 5
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