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The Gulf Savannah country [poster] : a traditional food resource / design Ron Lisle, Arjay Adverstising
Bib ID 6151105
Format PicturePicture [poster]
Author
Lisle, Ron
 
Description [Australia] : Daradgee Environmental Education Centre, the Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resources Management Office, and Kowanyama Counsel Elders, [1995-2005?] 
1 poster : col. ill. ; 60 x 90 cm. 
Summary

A colour poster featuring a painting of a landscape of rivers, estuaries and grassy plains in the Gulf Savannah country of Far North Queensland, presented from an aerial perspective. Different areas of the island are labelled, and there are many corresponding illustrations and descriptions of traditional food sources found in this landscape arranged in pale orange strips down either side of the poster. Two small green and blue maps inset at the lower left of the poster show the location of the landscape depicted, and a small diagram at the upper left shows the climate conditions at different times of the year.

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Caption title.

At foot of poster: "This poster was jointly produced by the Daradgee Environmental Education Centre, the Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resources Management Office, and Kowanyama Counsel Elders. It was funded by N.A.E.P. Design & illustration: Ron Lisle / Arjay Advertising."

Subjects Lisle, Ron -- Posters.  |  Daradgee Environmental Education Centre -- Posters.  |  Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resource Management Office -- Posters.  |  Kowanyama Aboriginal Community Council -- Posters.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Food -- Study and teaching -- Posters.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Diet -- Study and teaching -- Posters.  |  Wild foods -- Queensland -- Gulf of Carpentaria Region -- Posters.  |  Wildlife as food -- Queensland -- Gulf of Carpentaria Region -- Posters.  |  Posters, Australian.  |  Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region (N.T. and Qld.) -- Description and travel -- Posters.  |  Cape York Peninsula Region (Qld.) -- Posters.  |  Australia -- Posters.  |  Australian
Other authors/contributors Australia. National Aboriginal Education Committee  |  Daradgee Environmental Education Centre  |  Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resource Management Office  |  Kowanyama Aboriginal Community Council  |  Arjay Advertising
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