Military breastplates

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• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Explanation of terms
• History of king plates
• Military gorgets
• Establishment of a tradition
• King Bungaree and Matora
• Creation of Aboriginal kings
• Kings and pastoral expansion
• Service rewards
• Language teacher rewarded
• Heroic acts
• Protective gorgets
• 'Last of the Tribe'
• Aboriginal people's reactions
• Edmund Milne
• Manufacture and decoration
• Emu and kangaroo designs
• Use and survival conditions
• Epilogue
• List of breastplates
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Military breastplates

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