CANNIBALISM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 May 1921, Page 7

CANNIBALISM

PRACTISED BY ABORIGINES

(BY TPJ.iF.nniT'Tl-—FRT-as fasni'IATIOV.) (Received May 11, 10.35 a.m.)

PERTH, May 11. Mrs Bates, who returned from the

'Ooldea district, where she for years worked among the aborigines, states that cannibalism is rife there. At a recent initiation ceremony two natives were killed and eaten. Other instances were given of a woman who killed and ate a new-born baby, and another woman who ate her four babies. Hun- : ger was not the cause, but cannibalistic instincts.