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The coming of the white men to Boonjie

  • F3879
  • Item
  • 1940-1949

Personal recount of the first recorded contacts between white European explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Captain James Cook, with Aboriginal Australians in an area referred to as Boonjie, possibly located on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. Original typescript.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue

Boonjie : a romance of a lost tribe of Australian Aborigines, a North Queensland story

  • F3878
  • Item
  • 1940

Fictional story about Aboriginal Australians set in North Queensland. Two copies are carbon copy typescript and one is original typescript. Six black and white photographic prints pasted throughout the story. Four leaves of glossary at the end with fictionalised Australian language terms.

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 peoples now deceased, including an image of a mummified corpse (between pp. 66-67). It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Meredith, Percival Fortescue