The Australian Aborigines by A. P. Elkin Prints “The word modawa is the

“The word modawa is the Wedauan name for the Papua New Guinean rosewood tree

which began with Robert Towns’s importation in the 1860s of the first of the Kanakas for his cotton plantation near Brisbane and ended with the repatriation of the last of the natives after the labour trade was discontinued by Act of Parliament in 1904

a little rubbing and marking (see photographs)

by her brother Henry

Otherwise 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers retired by the Man with the Golden Gun

The Australian Aborigines by A. P. Elkin Prints “The word modawa is theThe Australian Aborigines How to Understand Them by A. P. Elkin Angus and Robertson, 1961, [Third Edition], black and white photographic plates, colour photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, tape residue on inside front and back covers, watermarks and discoloration to outer edge of text block, dustjacket in good condition with some edge and shelf