Early European accounts provide insights into Aboriginal Australian social organization, revealing complex systems of land tenure, leadership, and group structure. A crucial starting point is the definition of “tribe.” As Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt cautioned, this term is deeply misleading. It could describe an entire distinct community, like the Larakia, or a smaller division […]
The natives survived on what the land provided–a rich and varied diet. As ethnographers Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt noted, food was “widely spread throughout the country, and included almost everything, from the larvae of insects to the great kangaroo.” They also consumed fish and birds.
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