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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Papers English
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Arts organisations

Letters from various Arts organisations such as The Acting Company; Adelaide Festival; Artists for Peace; The Australian Society for Education through the Arts; Brisbane Children's Theatre; Brisbane Community Arts Centre; La Boite Theatre; Community Arts Network of Queensland; Popular Theatre Troupe; Warana Festival; Women's Art Movement; Woolloomooloo Cultural Festival.

Artbank

Correspondence relating to Kath Walkers involvement with Artbank. She was invited to be part of the Artbank board in 1984. Includes agenda and minutes from the Artbank Board Meeting (6 Sep 1984) and an Artfile from 1984.

Aborigines Gang Work Book

Transcribed handwritten copy of entries into the 'Aborigines Gang Work Book from Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, Benevelont [sic] Asylum for the Aged and Infirm, 1934'. Date of transcribing unknow; and transcriber unknown, but possibly Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Diary entries are from 18 Jun 1934 to 30 Jun 1934; E. Ruska is listed as the foreman; entries include information about the time the gang signed on and off and work conducted at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. Written in a Dux exercise note book

Aboriginal and his medicine chest

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

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