- UQFL84-Series G-File 2-Item 4
- Item
- 1975-1979
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
Correspondence, comprising 9 letters and 1 telegram; mostly written to Kath Walker; 1976 to 1979 and undated.
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
Correspondence, comprising 9 letters and 1 telegram; mostly written to Kath Walker; 1976 to 1979 and undated.
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
Original folder titled 'Burr-Nong Centre'. The file includes correspondence (draft outgoing, outgoing and incoming); 'Summary of Recommendations put forward in "The Feasibility of the 'Boornong' Project"'; and documents on bora grounds.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of ceremony. It 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.
Feasibility of the "Boornong" Project
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
The feasibility of the "Boornong" project : being a report prepared for the Office of Aboriginal Affairs and the Arts Council of Australia by D.W. McElwain ... [et al.]. Brisbane : University of Queensland, 1971. Some marking up.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of ceremony. It 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.
Aboriginal and his medicine chest
Part of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers
Photocopy of draft of the paper The Aboriginal and his medicine chest written by FS Colliver, 20 pages, which includes two pages of bibliographic references that are referred to within the article. The article was published in 1972 in the Anthropological Society of Queensland Newsletter, no. 44, and Archaeology papers (3) 1-18. It includes quotes various authors on medicine mans powers & functions (Gippsland, Coast Murring), training (Murring, lower Lachlan River, Murray River, New England), remedies for sickness, Walbiri doctors & attitudes to them, circumcision as operation, post operative; treatment (Daly River), treatment of wounds, fractures (Gulf country, Port Keats), diseases listed with remedies given (taken mainly from Roth), use of pituri as stimulant, list of plants with scientific & popular names.
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains ceremonial and initation information, in particular Men's Business. 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.
Colliver, F. S., 1908-1991
This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993