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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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con- sequently, with the incoming of thepresent Australian aborigines, thePapuan race might disappear from theisland-continent, leaving only the Tas-manians in their protected situation inthe far south. At any rate the fact remains, muchdwelt upon by ethnographers, that theTasmanians are essentially Papuan intheir characteristics. Many of theirethnic traits the two races have in com-mon. It has been noted with astonish- TA SMA NIA NS. —A R TS. 739 ment that the primitive industrial artsof Papuans and Tasmanians are, orwere, nearly identieal, while a greatdivergence has been noticed betweenthe barbarian workmanship of the Tas-manians and that of the neighboringAustralians. We are greatly indebted to Captain edge of that population which had pos-sessed the whole country. It was the opinion of Erskine that theTasmanians were distinctly like thePapuans of New Guinea. The charac-ter of the skull, the complexion, theperson in general, the woolly hair, andmany other ethnic marks seemed to
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YOUNG NEW CALEDONIANS—TYPES. tigation of theTasmanians andtheir arts. Erskine, of the Royal Navy, for someErskines hwes- careful observations madeamong the aborigines ofTasmania in the latterpart of the fifth decade of our century.At that time there were still in the islanda few fragments of tribes, amountingin all to no more than thirty or fortypersons. These were, nevertheless,sufficient to furnish a basis for a knowl- identify the few remaining nativeswith the race of New Guinea, and todiscriminate it from that of New Hol-land. Some of the baskets produced bythe aborigines of Tasmania were securedand brought by Captain Erskine intoEngland. These have been scientific-ally examined and compared with thosecollected from the Papuans, and the twoproducts have been found to be more 740 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. nearly identical than could be accountedfor on the ground of accidental similar-ity in savage workmanship. Erskine was surprised to find thenatives of Tasmania, as well as those o

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