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giant in The Aborigines of Tasmania

YEAR
1899
PLACE
Tasmania
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giant in The Aborigines of Tasmania

e eighty-nine inches long and consisting of 565 of these shells {Elenchus hellulus). In the Tasmanian Museum, at Hobart, there are two necklaces ; one of light coloured shells, the other of a dark lustrous green : the latter measures 6 feet 4 inches doubled, i.^. the single string of shells is 12 f…

Record ID
1,724
Year
1,899
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1724
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, J. G. Garson, E. B. Tylor
Published
1899
Narrative type
Giant and Ogre Narratives
Public-text label
giant
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Hobart, TAS (TAS): high; Tasmania (TAS): B
State or territory
TAS
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e eighty-nine inches long and consisting of 565 of these shells {Elenchus hellulus). In the Tasmanian Museum, at Hobart, there are two necklaces ; one of light coloured shells, the other of a dark lustrous green : the latter measures 6 feet 4 inches doubled, i.^. the single string of shells is 12 feet 8 inches long. The shells which are abundant on the long giant Kelp (not the Bull-Kelp) and elsewhere are locally known as ** warrener " or ** mariner " shells. No native name for shell necklaces is on record. Metallurgy. Furneaux found the natives without any knowledge of the metals (Cook's Sec. Voy. Bk. I. ch. vii.), and Cook found.

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