THE

NATIVE TRIBES

OF

CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

BY

BALDWIN SPENCER, M.A.

SOMETIME FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD

PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

AND

F. J. GILLEN

SPECIAL MAGISTRATE AND SUB-PROTECTOR OF THE ABORIGINES

ALICE SPRINGS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

London, Macmillan and Co., Limited,

[1899]

TO A. W. HOWITT AND LORIMER FISON WHO LAID THE FOUNDATION OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGY THIS WORK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHORS