The Native Tribes of Tasmania Minerals the Duke of Newcastle and

the Duke of Newcastle and Professor Thomas Huxley were among many eminent men who solicited human specimens from the colony

Yet little is known about their behaviour and ecology

The book also includes an introduction to the vegetation of Tasmania

animals and human biology too

Approximately 120mm long x 65mm high – handmade so every Thylacine is unique

The Native Tribes of Tasmania Minerals the Duke of Newcastle andJames Erskine Calder, Tasmanias Surveyor General from 1859 to 1870, lived through the violence and conflict of early colonial Van Diemens Land, often in direct contact with First Nations peoples. His accounts detail a time of harrowing warfare. Uncommonly, he was one of the few public voices calling for his countrymen to understand Tasmanian Indigenous peoples not as savages but as human beings. In 1972, the year of the establishment of the Aboriginal