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6. Demise of the megafauna -- 7. Pleistocene Australia - adaptation and innovation -- 8. Holocene Australia and regional case studies -- 9. Tasmania - an isolated trajectory -- Conclusion.

Collections 29 -- Leonn Satterthwait -- 2. Reflections in a Cracked Mirror: What Collections -- Representing 'Them' Can Say about 'Us' and the Role -- of Museum Collections 61 -- Richard Robins -- 3. An Ark of Aboriginal Relics: The Collecting Practices of -- Dr LP Winterbotham 76 -- Daniel Leo -- Part II: Collecting under the Influence of -- Evolutionism -- 4. Gentlemen Collectors: The Port Phillip District, 1835-1855 113 -- Elizabeth Willis -- 5. 'Annexing All I Can Lay Hands On': Baldwin Spencer as -- Ethnographic Collector 141 -- John Mulvaney -- 6. The Man Who Collected Everything: WE Roth 163 -- Kate Kahn -- 7. The Australian Aboriginal Collection and the Berlin -- Ethnological Museum 190 -- Janice Lally -- 8. Talking into the Wind: Collectors on the Cooper Creek, -- 1890-1910 206 -- Chris Nobbs -- 9. The Dynamics of the Collector-Curator Relationship: -- Interpreting Henry Hillier's Central Australian Collections 235 -- Ian Coates -- 10. 'Your Obedient Servant': The John Tunney Collection -- at the Western Australian Museum 255 -- Ross Chadwick -- 11. Professionals and Amateurs: Different Histories of -- Collecting in the National Ethnographic Collection 281 -- David Kaus -- Part III: Before It Is Too Late -- 12. The 'Idea behind the Artefact': Norman Tindale's -- Early Years as a Salvage Ethnographer 315 -- Philip Jones -- 13. The Reluctant Collector: Lloyd Warner 355 -- Louise Hamby -- 14. Tons and Tons of Valuable Material: The Donald Thomson -- Collection 387 -- Lindy Allen -- 15. Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel--Her Collecting -- and Collection 419 -- Anne Perusco -- 16. The Art of Collecting: Charles Pearcy Mountford 446 -- Sally May -- 17. Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections by -- FD McCarthy in the Australian Museum 472 -- Val Attenbrow -- Part IV: Transformed Collecting -- 18. 'I Did Not Set Out to Make a Collection': The Ronald and -- Catherine Berndt Collection at the Berndt Museum of -- Anthropology 511 -- John Stanton -- 19. 'The Woman with Men's Business': Helen Wurm 537 -- Margie West -- 20. Aesthete and Scholar: Two Complementary Influences on -- the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University -- ofVirginia 556 -- Margo Smith -- Contributors 580.

camped and land use patterns -- 6. The social organisation -- 7. The foods people ate and how they were obtained -- 8. Their tools, weapons and other equipment -- 9. Shelter, clothing and personal adornment -- 10. Making use of available raw materials -- 11. Beliefs, totems, rites and ceremonies -- 13. The time line: an overview -- Sites-to-visit supplement.

dead; daily lives of the natives; food; diseases; dress and personal ornaments; weapons; implements and manufacturers; nets and fish hooks; methods of producing fire; canoes and myths. Smyth also devotes about two hundred pages to Aboriginal languages, as well as including details and customs of the aborigines in Tasmania. Complete with hundreds of sketches, the work is still a valuable resource not only for those with in an interest in aboriginal culture, but also those wanting to know the early history of Australia.