Reading the 'Foreign Skull'
The death of William Lanney in 1869 was thought to mark the virtual extinction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race. European and colonial scientists longed to possess Lanney's bones for museum collections, and several of Hobart's medical men set about the business of harvesting them. In histories of ra...
| Published in: | Australian Historical Studies Vol. 37; no. 125; pp. 81 - 97 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2005
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