A sermon by the Rev. Dr. J. G. Steele, preached at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday 6 September 1981
Addresses 'What the white man needs to know about Aboriginals' and 'What Aboriginals need to know about themselves'.
Discusses Aboriginal spirituality, and the need for research into Aboriginal history and culture. Steele makes several references to Janie Sunflower.
Steele, John Gladstone
A short history of the Downs blacks known as 'the Blucher Tribe'
A personal history of an Aboriginal Australian tribe referred to as 'the Blucher tribe' located in the Darling Downs region. Includes an overview of their culture and customs. Two copies are typescripts bound by the Library. One is an original typescript with stiff paper wrappers and some handwritten annotations. One is a roneoed copy. The first of the two bound typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '1.11.1934 345 1st copy typed in University Office'. The second of the two typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '345 1.11.1934 duplic[ate] for FWR [Frederick Walter Robinson] 2/6'. The third original typescript copy in stiff paper wrappers, 41 leaves, has a bookplate pasted inside the front wrapper that states it 'belonged to Frederick Walter Robinson'. The fourth copy, 29 pages, looks to be a roneoed typescript that came from the Hayes collection.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains details about cultural and ceremonial rites, including Men’s Business and identifying details about the location and features of Killarney bora grounds. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.
Hall, Thomas, 1845-1928
Aboriginal participation in community life / E. A. Iceton.
Paper prepared for 5th National Conference of Australian Council of Social Service, held at University of Queensland, 19-24 May 1968.
Topics include : relationships with the white community, sociological dimensions of the task ahead, case-studies in Aboriginal community development, pre-conditions for successful outcomes, role of the C.D. practitioner, methodology.
Includes bibliography.
Iceton, E. A.
Aboriginal tribes in the Woocoo Shire
Typescript (duplicated), which includes descriptive information about the Kabi tribe, an account of conflict between white settlers and local indigenous people in about 1849, and an account of indigenous customs at Mt. Mowbollan. Includes bibliography.
Woocoo Historical Society
Abschol newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of aboriginal affairs, compiled for ABSCHOL from March 1963 to July 1966.
Scrapbook includes pamphlets and postcards.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.
Bakker, Henny (Fokker)
Album of Charles Kerry photographs
Album of 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Written on the images in white capital letters are captions, a photographic number and the name of the photographic studio 'Kerry, Photo, Sydney'. Handwritten on the mounting boards are pencil captions, often with less information than the captions on the images and the photographic number supplied by Kerry crossed out and alternative numbering provided. The album itself has been bound and has a handwritten spine title stuck to it "Australian Aboriginal ceremonies". It looks to have been added to the album at a later date, thus not the original title of the album.
The images are of Australian Aboriginal people in what appears to be mostly staged poses for Australian Aboriginal ceremonies, corroborees, dance, tracking, fights as well as photographs of various individuals. Some of the photographs have painted backdrops. Some of the people in the photographs were members of "Meston's Wild Australia" (also know as Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show"). There are some photographs that were most likely taken in Sydney in December 1892 by Charles Kerry. This is based on the beach setting and the backdrops being identical to those photographs for Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show".
Listed below are the contents of the album. The number corresponds to the page number in the album; the tile is what appears on the image itself; and in brackets is the Kerry Studio photograph number and the alternative number if provided. Information in square brackets is provided by the processing archivist:
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographs may contain images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions. The descendants' request was that the subjects of the photos be recognised as Wailwan. None of the descendants expressed any desire to censor or withdraw the photos from general viewing. In particular, women should be cautious when viewing the image as it includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.
Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1928
F433a : A list of bora grounds in south-east Queensland (7 leaves typescript; 1970);
F433b : Essential points for the restoration and preservation of bora rings (2 leaves typescript);
F433c : Excursion to Rathdowney and the New South Wales border at Mount Lindesay to view bora rings etc. (3 leaves typescript; 1951).
F433b and F433c initialled by F. W. Robinson.
F433c headed 'Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Brisbane meeting May 1951, Section F (Anthropology)'.
Marks, Elizabeth N.
Articles published in newspapers, ca.1923-1924
Cuttings of articles by Archibald Meston on various subjects, in different newspapers. Also : obituary articles about Meston, including one typescript article (6 leaves, unidentified); typescript poem, 'When Murphy comes : advance of Kuropatkin Murphy to the relief of Port Arthur Morgan' (2 leaves); handwritten letter about Meston, to W.J. Gall from Thomas J. Barker, 1924 Apr. 24 (5 leaves); one leaf handwritten note, about Aboriginal language.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.
Meston, Archibald, 1851-1924
Lambert, John Terence, 1955-