Show LAST OF STONE AGE MAN tasman an abor g nes not appreciate ed lint I 1 it was too late the visitor to tasman a can have an eie iunce that Is novel he can cill on the id t of the native race of the lind bhe is and she holds reci eions in a glass case in the national museum there is only the skeleton left but judging aiom th it she was a belloi little body of about our feet ahe tasmanian Tasman lan aborigine was a clean sort of moving every day so as not to have the dirt or a 1 es of esterday in his the n ode w aa uncut hall for men sl aven heads foi won en poth wora at tin es a necklace and also on occa tied a strip of fur around the c ilves of their legs they seemed to get along very well with this even tl agh the winters were cold then came the white man with hah gin ani hia modesty between the g m and the blanket and some other clothes an I 1 the permanent shelter there AS only one left in the ind she died at about the age of 0 deais in 1876 and her bones well articulated and loll shed stand in state to day hen this face had disappeared the paleozoic fellows discovered that these tasmanian lan aborigines were probably the world s only specimens of the ie of the stone age but the discovery dib covery came too late the foil a ho had mixed up with kheiri were not of the caliber to give the world a very good to say nothing of reliable record of the inner char acte of this extra primitive peo rie or their traditional account of how they got marooned on this iso island kneir principal record left Is that they did not worry a tact from which it may be reasoned that bald heads and geay hairs were probably not known in the days when slabs of granite were legal tender |