Quinkan Country : an introduction to the Rock Art of Laura, Cape York Peninsula / Laura Cultural Heritage Body; Laura Rangers

Bib ID:
10006955
Format:
Book
Online Access:
National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
Description:
  • [Laura, Qld.] : Laura Cultural Heritage Body, [2023]
  • ©2023
  • 1 online resource (76 pages) : colour photographs.
File Characteristics:
text file PDF 13.1MB
ISBN:
9780645767995
Summary:

Quinkan Country refers to the lands around the small township of Laura in southeast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. The area was added to the National Heritage List in recognition of its spectacular rock art, as featured in this book. This book shares Aboriginal traditional knowledge about the rock art and cultural heritage of Quinkan Country with readers, with proceeds going to help the Laura Rangers care for Quinkan Country.

Notes:
  • "Acknowledgements: Comments were provided by Tommy George and George Musgrave, now deceased Kuku-Thaypan elders, and also Christine Musgrave, Roseanne George, Nancy Coleman, Johnny Ross, Roy Banjo, Ellenore Lowdown, Gene Ross, Joseph Lee Chu. Lenny Ned, Lenny Banjo, Clifford Callaghan, Thomas George(d.) and Palmer Lee Chu. Thank you to the people of Laura and members of the Laura Cultural Heritage Body Inc. for their support in preparing this booklet. Many of the images used in this book were produced during the Agayrr Bamangay Milbi project funded by the Australian Research Council(LP190100194); the Laura Rangers are research partners on that project." -- from page 76.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-5)
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