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McConnel Family Papers

  • UQFL89
  • Collection
  • 1844-1977

Durundur Station letterbooks and account book; autograph album; personal papers of John McConnel and Arthur John McConnel; legal and financial documents; surveyors' plans and parish maps (relating to family holdings in Burnett area); press clippings; breeding records; correspondence, miscellaneous papers, poetry, artwork.

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McConnel family

Caroline Kelly Papers

  • UQFL489
  • Collection
  • ca. 1900-1987

Personal and professional papers of Caroline Kelly, including correspondence; financial and legal papers; unpublished poetry and stories; theatre records and publications; anthropology field notes, reports and articles; photographs and newspaper cuttings.

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Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Elwyn Flint Papers

  • UQFL173
  • Collection
  • [196-]

This collection comprises written documents collected by Flint mostly as part of a long term research project in the 1960s, known as the Queensland Speech Survey, during which Flint recorded traditional Aboriginal languages. This collection also documents the Yuulngu (Gupapuyngu) language. Other parts of the collection include journal articles of languages, correspondence with field-linguists and staff from academic institutions, Indonesian material, and documentation of the English spoken by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Australian and regional pidgins, "migrants" and "mother-tongue" people from different ages, regions or socio-economic groups.

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Flint, Elwyn Henry

Vocabularies of four representative tribes of South Eastern Queensland, with grammatical notes thereof, and some notes on manners and customs. Also, a list of aboriginal place names and their derivations.

  • F3843
  • Item
  • 1939?

Draft typescript with handwritten emendations. This manuscript contains vocabularies for the Kabi-kabi, Wakka-wakka, Yugarabul and Yugumbir languages. The twelve page preface includes notes on grammar and pronunciation, pronunciation of letters, and grammar of the Yugumbir, Yugarabul and Wakka languages. The chapters: Vocabulary: English - Kabi and Kabi - English (78 leaves); Vocabulary: English - Yugumbir and Yugumbir - English (68 leaves); Vocabulary: English - Yugarabul and Yugarabul - English (29 leaves), Declension of a noun of the Yugarabul language (adapted from the work of Rev. W. Ridley) (1 leaf); Vocabulary: English - Wakka and Wakka - English (24 leaves); Some notes on the manners and customs of the aborigines of South East Queensland; Aboriginal place names of South-east Queensland; Index of names; and a map of south east Queensland. A railways map of south east Queensland has beeen coloured by Watson to show the lingual divisions and has the date of 1939.

It was published as a Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland) no. 34, vol. XLVII in 1944.

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Watson, F. J.

Massacres of Australian Aborigines in Queensland

  • F3527
  • Item
  • 2010

Draft typescript article written by Richard Fotheringham for The Australian Literary Review which was published with the title 'Inside the killing fields of Queensland' on October 6, 2010, pp. 12-13. This article was written after the discovery of a memoir by Thomas Davis, father of Arthur Hoey Davis (aka "Steele Rudd"), which discussed massacres of Australian Aborigines in his time of working in Queensland in the 1800s. Fotheringham suggested the name of the manuscript.

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Fotheringham, Richard, 1947-

Gaiarbau's story of the Jinibara tribe of South East Queensland (and its neighbours)

  • F1811
  • Item
  • [1957?]

On the title page, handwritten above the title 'The Jinibara tribe of South East Queensland (and its neighbours)' is 'Gaiarbau's story of '.

This draft carbon copy typescript recounts the story of Gaiarbau as told to Lindsay Winterbotham. In it Gaiarbau describes the form of tribal government, details of daily life, community, and relations with others outside of the community. This copy has many handwritten emendations written in blue pen; written in pencil at the top of most pages is 're-typed'. Handwritten emendations do not form part of the published version in Queensland Ethnohistory Transcripts 1:1 (1982). Illustrations consist of black and white photographs pasted onto light weight card and tipped/inserted in place.

Preface written by Norman B. Tindale.

Index of contents is available at the end of the volume (page numbers may not be the correct).
Contents, as edited:
Chapter I. The tribes and their areas.
Chapter II. The Jinibara.
Chapter III. Jinibara Tribal Government. [The Bora , and] Tribal Council [and Gundir].
Chapter IV. Daily Life.
Chapter V. Community life.
Chapter VI. Story Telling.
Chapter VII. Conduct of fights and weapons used.
Chapter VIII. Intertribal activities. Walkabout.
Chapter IX. Pygmies (Dinderis).

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Winterbotham, L. P. (Lindsey Page)