Francois Peron examining an aboriginal tomb on Maria Island, Tasmania. Complete (left), half opened (right) and dismantled (centre). The grave consists of a cone of wooden fibre over long poles. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after Charles-Alexandre Lesueur from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.

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