# 16917
TAPLIN, George, Rev. (1831-1879)
The Narrinyeri : An account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: their Manners and Customs, also an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay.
$850.00 AUD
Adelaide : J.T. Shawyer, Printer, 1874. Octavo, original flushcut limp cloth (somewhat sunned) with printed title label to front (loss to top left corner of label), front pastedown with bookplate of John Calaby, frontispiece tipped-in albumen print photograph with montage of head-and-shoulder portraits of identified Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) men and women by Townsend Duryea, pp. iv, [ii], 107; a very good copy.
The frontispiece portraits of Aboriginal residents of Point Macleay Mission include one of James Unaipon, deacon at the Church of Point Macleay and father of David Unaipon.
