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Show I I I I U ' I i I LAST OF STONE AGE MAN. It 1 J Tatmanlsn Aborigines Not Appreciate M j f ed Until It Wat Too Late. n f I The visitor to Tasmania can hare If j . an experience that Is novel he can B ' call on the (act of the native race of Mil the land. She Is Trucanlntt!, and she H holds receptions In a glass case In the H i National museum. H There Is only the skoleton left, tiu1 Hi) Judging from that she was a well-or- K ganlzod llttlo body of about four foot. Uj j The Tasmantan aborigine was a H, ' clean sort of person, moving every Bj j ! day. so as not to have the dirt or K jj asbs of yesterday In his camp. I The mode was uncut hair for men, shaven heads for women. Both wore at times a necklace and also on occasions occa-sions tied a strip of fur around the calves of their legs. They seemed In Tot along very welt with this, even though the winters were cold. Then came the white man with s gun and his modesty. Between the guu and the blanket and soma other clothes and the permanent shelter, there was only one left In the '70s, and she Trucanlnnt died at about rhe age of 70 years In 1878, an,d her tones, well articulated and polished, stand In state to-day. When this face had disappeirod the "paleozoic fellows" dlscovond that these Tasmanlan aborigines were JjRI probably the world's only specimens Hkk of the people of tho stone ago. B K But the discovery came too late. B Tho f" who hud mixed up with B l; Uion were not of tho caliber to give Bf;' i !. orld a veiy good, to say nothing Bhjk if reliable, record of tho Inner char-Hjijt char-Hjijt antorlstlcs of this extra prlmltlvo poo-Hi poo-Hi ft? I'le, or their traditional account of Bjn) how they got marooned on this lso-BmI lso-BmI latod Island. BlC1 Their principal record left Is that Bslti they did not worry a fact from which It may be reasoned that bald heads and gray hairs were probably JII& not known In the days when slabs of BJrI granite were legal tender. BB1 |
