Australian aborigine funeral ceremony from Port Jackson: warriors with spears and knives lead the funeral procession with two men carrying a corpse in winding cloth in front of a mourning woman. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. From an original illustration by Marchais from unknown French publication.

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