ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE WESTERN COASTAL 



TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF SOUTH 



AUSTRALIA. 



By Herbert Basedow. 



[Read October 2, 1906.] 



Plates I. to XIX. 



The following facts, relative to the characteristics and 

 customs of several native tribes of the Northern Territory, 1 

 gathered while acting as Assistant to the Government Geo- 

 logist, Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, on geological explorations dur- 

 ing 1905. The accompanying figures are reproductions of 

 my original field-sketches. 



The tribal distribution, and, simultaneously, the extent 

 of tribal territory, of the native population of the north- 

 western coastal districts of the Northern Territory vary 

 directly as the natural resources of the particular locality. 



Corrigendum. 



By request of the author (who is absent froiri Australia) de- 

 lete, on page 23, line 30, and on page 2o, line 31, Ceratodus, as 

 one of the fishes obtained by the natives in the rivers of the Nor- 

 thern Territory — Ed 



boundary at about twenty-five miles inland. The Larrekiya 

 further separate themselves into coastal and inland groups, 

 the former being called the Binnimiginda, the latter the Gun- 



* This is how the pronunciation appears to me. I am aware 

 that other authors have alluded to the tribe, and adopted slight 

 variations hi their spelling. Vide Foelsche : Trans. Roy. Soc, 

 S.A., vol. v., 1882 (LarraheahJ: Coppinger : Voyage of the 

 '■Alert," 1883 (LarikiaJ; Curr : The Australian Race, 1886, vol. 

 i. CLarral'ia and Larraqea ): Mackillop : Trans. Rov. Soc.. S.A., 

 vol. xvii., 1893 { La rrilnya ); FRrkhouse : Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 

 vol. xix., part 1, 1895, and Austr. Assoc. Adv. Science, vol. vi., 

 1895 (LdrrahVa, Larrakiha, Larrikia, Larrakecha, and Larrer- 

 keeyah). 



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