A FUNDAMENTAL RACE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 30 December 1925, Page 5

A FUNDAMENTAL RACE.

THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S CONCLUSIONS. New York, Dec. £B. At Newhaven Dr. Ales Hrdlieka, pre. sident of the American Anthropological Society, addressed the organisation in reference to his investigations in Africa, Asia and Australia into racial development. He declared: “I find the Rhodesian skull of much scientific importance, but still so enigmatic that none knows what to make of it.” Dr. Hrdlieka, referring to bls Australian studies, said: “I was especially interested in the pure-blooded aborig ines along the coast, and their par ticularly impressive nocturnal ceremonies. 7 He described the exceptional type from the Wyndham district, fullblooded, full-coloured aborigines with tow coloured hair, and said: “The Australian and Tasmanian aborigines deserve to be classed as one of the funda mental races of mankind, although not a race which shows close connection With our ancestral stock —namely not with negroes or Melanesians, but 1 ’ with the old white people of post-glacial times.”—(A. and N.Z.)