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Fish bones and scorching hair: new research shows how Aboriginal people fought smallpox

A smallpox epidemic in the 1830s brought a new and deadly disease to the southeastern frontier.

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The Conversation: Fish bones and scorching hair: new research shows how Aboriginal people fought smallpox — by Heidi Norman, Professor of Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney, Nicholas Pitt, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Humanities & Languages, UNSW Sydney

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