Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates - Plate Seven: A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial

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Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates

Plate Seven: A Native Sepulchre or Aboriginal Mode of Burial

Caption: Great mourning follows death among the native tribes, men cut themselves, and the women shave their hair off and cover their heads with moistened pipe clay.  By some tribes the body is doubled up or burnt, but generally is suspended on sticks near water, like the above representation as they believe after death their friends jump up white men. 

Artist: Loosely based on drawings by S.T. Gill, including some plates from The Australian sketchbook. 

Provenance: Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery Complete in 12 Plates
Contributor: Paul Jerrard & Son
Contributor: Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Date of Publication: ca. 1865
Published by: Paul Jerrard & Son for the proprietors Messrs. Newbold & Co.
Place of Publishing: London (170 Fleet Street)
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Courtesy: State Library Victoria
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