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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Hanged Man and the Body Thief 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man's... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between... RRP: $45.00 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Recording Kastom Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the journals of zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the islands in 1888 and 1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely... RRP: $60.00 $58.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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