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The Quinkan Web Catalogue

– a cultural activity

Noelene Cole & Liddy NevileMelbourne IT, Australia

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The Quinkan People

The Agayrra-Timara and Wulburjubur-Bama peoples of the Quinkan region of Cape York Peninsula work with the Ang-gnarra Aboriginal Corporation as Trustee to manage their cultural heritage.

Now they want to bring it to the world via the Internet

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Two Quinkan Elders

Mr George Musgrave Mr Tommy George

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Percy Tresize with a rock art chart

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The Quinkan Reserves

The Reserves contain one of the largest and most spectacular collections of rock art, located around Laura, 290 km from the nearest large city, on Cape York Peninsula, Far North Queensland.

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The Laura River

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Resource types

• The rock art sites and paintings• The Percy Tresize collection• The Elders• The Interpretive Centre• University research projects• Carbon dating data• Photographs, videos, audio tapes• Charts and maps …..

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This is our place, our country, the country of our ancestors. The spirits of the ancestors live here, in

the rocks, those sandstone escarpments.Our ancestors made that art you see on the rocks.The Quinkans do their work at night. The good ones and those bad ones. The pictures and the paintings

of the past are our link with the presentThis is our country, the place of our ancestorsYou have to know that way to understand the

Aboriginal way.The land gives us what we need: food, shelter,

tradition, law, dance.They were put there in the dreaming. That way we live. All things work together: the land, the law, the

culture, the heritage. That way things work.

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Paintings at Mushroom Rock - a very ancient place

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Silhouette woman on ceiling - dark red

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You can see two different styles in the pictures on these pages

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Woman front on with hands and feet in plan view

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Bird in profile with hand stencil for contrast

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Rayed head-dress

Head showing eyes and nose

Rayed head-dress with outline

Head showing eyes and stretched ears

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