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The author accompanied A. R. [Radcliffe-] Brown on his expeditions in Western Australia, the work of Radcliffe-Brown in collecting information on marriage systems is described, brief accounts of ceremonies and material culture; the work was disrupted by a violent police raid and further research was carried out on the prison hospital Bernier Island in Sharks Bay where Aborigines suffering from VD were forcibly imprisoned. (Libraries Australia record).
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Dedication: To my grandson Hugh Spence that he may know what the world was once like
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- Western Australia,
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cFiji,cSouth Pacific, Pacific Region,
- 1910-1911
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