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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

Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service Records

  • F2360
  • File
  • 1970-1976.

Mostly typescript, some handwritten, some photocopies or duplicated papers. These papers were collected by John P. Brown, Senior Lecturer in Dentistry at the Turbot Street Dental School, around the formation of Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service. It includes: rosters and roster correspondence, articles on the Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service, dental health, finance and equipment, constitution, minutes and reports, health statistics. Papers relate particularly to the Dental Service of the Aborigines and Islanders Community Health Service.

Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service (Brisbane, Qld.)

Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School : cards and drawings

The Murri School (also known as the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School) was first established in 1986. This file contains cards and letters, mostly from children to ‘Super Gran’ or Muriel Langford and a Certificate of appreciation to Muriel Langford.

Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School (Brisbane, Qld.)

Aboriginal land rights campaign 1968.

"A statement issued by the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Abschol Department of the National Union of Australian University Students." It deals with what is being sought, why, who is instigating the campaign, and answers some additional questions about consequences.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

Aboriginal Land Rights Campaign, background material.

Introduction and, Fact Sheets 1-7. Its stated purpose to provide useful material for campaign workers, to cover a variety of speaking and writing situations and audiences. Topics covered include Aboriginal social conditions, international standards and precedents, support in Australia through colonial and commonwealth history, and rebuttals for possible objections from pastoralists and mining companies.

Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

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