This vintage TMAG booklet serves as an important mid-twentieth-century pictorial and historiographical record of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. It compiles historical commentary alongside archival photographic plates, sketches, and portraits from the museum's early collections.
British sealer John Scott arrived in Bass Strait in 1806 and had children with at least three Tasmanian Aboriginal women, fathering at least nine children before drowning off King Island in 1843. Scottish-born David Howie, appointed Constable of the Straits, patrolled Bass Strait and King Island; in 1845 he played a key role in the aftermath of the Cataraqui disaster. This book traces the lives and Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of both men, drawing together family trees, John Scott's own diary, and the wider Bass Strait sealing community of the 19th century.
![The Tamar Boats – A Complete Reference Book | Betty J. Percy | 1993 | [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-tamar-boats-hcdj-jMr0xx.png "The Tamar Boats – A Complete Reference Book | Betty J. Percy | 1993 | [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
A comprehensive reference to the privately built and owned boats launched from the banks of the Tamar River in northern Tasmania, written by Betty J. Percy and published by Foot & Playsted, Launceston in 1993. Percy documents over 750 craft — the vast majority privately owned, built by both professional and amateur boat builders.
A detailed history of the Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company, which operated at Beaconsfield on the Tamar River from 1877 to 1903.
