ABORIGINAL’S DEATH
BONE-POINTING EPISODE SYDNEY, September 19. An aboriginal named Major, aged 40, died of an obsession and a persecution complex at Mount Isa. This was stated ' by a Government medical officer, who I performed an autopsy after the aborigi- | nal had died, soon after his admission to hospital. I For some months a big camp of ' aborigines has been established on the ' Templeton River, 30 miles from Mount i Isa. A dispute is alleged to have take’s place between Major and another aboriginal. A bone was pointed at Major, who later left the camp, and was found on the roadway some miles outside the town. He was apparently in a dying condition, and was unable to tell exactly what had occurred.
Other aborigines, explaining the bone-pointing, said the thigh bone of a plain turkey topped with beeswax was used. They would not divulge the name of the one who did the pointing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 6
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153ABORIGINAL’S DEATH Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 6
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