Aboriginal History Volume 31 2007 Aboriginal History Incorporated Aboriginal History is a refereed journal that presents articles and information in Australian ethnohistory and contact and post-contact history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Historical studies based on anthropological, archaeological, linguistic and sociological research, including comparative studies of other ethnic groups such as Pacific Islanders in , are welcomed. Subjects include recorded oral traditions and biographies, narratives in local languages with translations, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, archival and bibliographic articles, and book reviews. Aboriginal History is administered by an Editorial Board which is responsible for all unsigned material. Views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily shared by Board members. The Committee of Management and the Editorial Board Peter Read (Chair), Rob Paton (Treasurer/Public Officer), Ingereth Macfarlane (Secretary/ Managing Editor), Richard Baker, Gordon Briscoe, Ann Curthoys, Brian Egloff, Geoff Gray, Niel Gunson, Christine Hansen, Luise Hercus, David Johnston, Steven Kinnane, Harold Koch, Isabel McBryde, Ann McGrath, Frances Peters-Little, Kaye Price, Deborah Bird Rose, Peter Radoll, Tiffany Shellam. Editors 2007 Managing Editor Ingereth Macfarlane; Volume Editor Kitty Eggerking; Book Review Editor Luise Hercus; Review Editor Ann McGrath; Copy Editor Geoff Hunt

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Kitty Eggerking Preface v Rebe Taylor The polemics of eating fish in Tasmania: the historical 1 evidence revisited David Trudinger The language(s) of Love: JRB Love and contesting 27 tongues at Ernabella Mission Station, 1940–46 Joanne Scott and Colonialism on display: Indigenous people and 45 Ross Laurie artefacts at an Australian agricultural show Anna Haebich and Modern primitives leaping and stomping the earth: 63 Jodie Taylor from ballet to bush doofs Michael Bennett The economics of fishing: sustainable living in colonial 85 New South Wales Judith Littleton Time and memory: historic accounts of Aboriginal 103 burials in south-eastern Australia Kelly K Chaves ‘A solemn judicial farce, the mere mockery of a trial’: 122 the acquittal of Lieutenant Lowe, 1827

Notes and documents Darrell Lewis Death on the Cooper: King’s secret? 141 Chris Warren Could First Fleet smallpox infect Aborigines? – a note 152 Anne Brewster ‘That child is my hero’: an interview with Alf Taylor 165 Hilary Charlesworth What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian 178 Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006 – Launch speech Indigenous history research resources online at 181 AIATSIS The Sally White / Diane Barwick Award for 2008 181

Reviews Ann Curthoys A Frontier Conversation, produced by Wonderland 182 Productions for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Margaret Jacobs A response to A Frontier Conversation 183 iv ABORIGINAL HISTORY 2007 VOL 31

Book reviews Kim McCaul First peoples, indigenous cultures and their future by 188 Jeffrey Sissons Paul Black The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: 190 comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region edited by Nicholas Evans Stuart Cooke Piercing the Ground: Balgo women’s image making and 193 relationship to country by Christine Watson Niel Gunson Eye Contact: Photographing 195 by Jane Lydon Lawrence Niewójt Campfires at the Cross: an account of the Bunting Dale 199 Aboriginal Mission at Birregurra, near Colac, Victoria 1839-1851 by Heather Le Griffon Nicholas Brown Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader’s Quest for Justice 202 by Quentin Beresford Thalia Anthony Black Glass, Western Australian Courts of Native Affairs 203 1936–54 by Kate Auty Kim McCaul Unfinished Constitutional Business? Rethinking 205 Indigenous Self-determination edited by Barbara A Hocking Sharon Sullivan Appropriated Pasts: and the colonial 208 culture of archaeology by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russel Dick Kimber God, guns and government on the Central Australian 210 Frontier by Peter Vallee

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