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unusual facts about Australian aborigine



Androgenic hair

Anthropologist Joseph Deniker said that the very hairy peoples are the Ainus, Iranians, Australian aborigines, Toda, Dravidians and Melanesians while Deniker said the American Indian, San, Mongol and Malay people are glabrous (not hairy).

Bush bread

The Cooper Creek Aborigines, the Yandruwandha people, gave them fish, beans called 'padlu' and bread made from the ground sporocarps of the ngardu (nardoo) plant (Marsilea drummondii).

Clinton Walker

His sixth book, Buried Country, a history of Aboriginal country music, was published in 2000 and spawned a documentary film and soundtrack CD with the same title.

Everton Cemetery

The head of Australian Aborigine warrior Yagan (c.1795-1833), after being kept in Liverpool Museum, was buried in the cemetery in 1964 in a box also containing a Peruvian mummy and a Maori's head that had also been kept by the museum.

Gatjil Djerrkura

Gatjil Djerrkura OAM (Yolŋu Matha:Gätjil Djerrkura) (30 June 1949 – 26 May 2004) was an Aboriginal leader and indigenous spokesman in the Northern Territory and Australia.

Geikie Gorge National Park

Sir Archibald never visited the gorge and in due course the traditional owners, the Bunaba people, hope that it will be more generally known by its Aboriginal name, Darngku.


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