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Francis James Gillen

Australian anthropologist (1855-1912)

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Lived 1855–1912, aged 57Australia
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    1855–1912
    Aged 57
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Updated 2026-06-22

Francis James Gillen, also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899). They both worked in central Australia, where Gillen was employed as a telegraph station master, with the Arrernte people and other Indigenous Australians.

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