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Between summers swinging wooden bats with the nation’s best—in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) and the Cape Cod League—Hendricks found time during his junior year to lead the Crimson in hitting (.387) and slugging (.623), and finished second on the team in RBIs (29). His .387 average was the second best in the Ivy League...
...year in which the new nation decided not to include indigenous people in its population counts. Thirty years later, a white man who liked them was, he wrote, "regarded as an eccentric." By then the young anthropologist was seeing official attitudes to Aborigines up close on Cape York. In 1932 he photographed three Aboriginal men chained neck to neck, sentenced without trial by a mission superintendent to lifelong exile on Palm Island. The image, reproduced in Thomson, shows them beginning a 380-km walk with police riding behind them. As desolate as the image is, Thomson wrote, "it gives...
Thomson was so affected by what he saw on Cape York that the following year, when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them...
...this edition Peterson has added a jewel - 80 extra images from Thomson's trove of 10,500 negatives from Arnhem Land and Cape York. (These, along with 5,700 artefacts and 4,500 pages of field notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff...
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