Guide to Indigenous Material within the Hayes Collection

Author

Title

Description

Collection Number

Armitage, Edward

Death wail of the Gingin-barra tribe, on the Mooroobakoola (Mary) River Wide Bay district, Queensland.

Dated Maryboro QLD, 25 Oct 1923 and addressed ‘To his excellency the governor of Queensland, Brisbane’

UQFL2:101

Aborigines Protection League (Native State) Adelaide

Records, 1926

Records of an organization formed in 1926 with the goal of establishing a model Aboriginal state in South Australia.

UQFL2:125

Duncan, Norman

Letters to the Bulletin 1897

Letters talk about Aboriginal people who told M Everitt about Captain Cook, Aboriginal song and rock paintings

UQFL2:949-950

Everitt, Mary M

Australian bypaths: a day or two in the dry lands

Has hand painted watercolour pictures of Aboriginal peoples, other travellers and landscapes

UQFL2:837

Healy, John

Aboriginal people of Australia

Aboriginal origins of various places in QLD, NSW; anthropologist Dr Walter Edmund Roth; hunting techniques - general ;Nardoo; Bunya nuts; weapon use - Boomerang; Noul Noul, ceremony, medicine men, relationship with land

UQFL2:1225

Healy, John

Treatment of Australian Aborigines

Australian aborigines and Catholic missions, unpublished 19??

UQFL2:4019

Henry, Ernest

Letter to his mother 28 Jan 1884 describing an incident when he was speared by aborigine in his employ, and his otherwise good relations with Aborigines

 

UQFL2:1245

McDowell, H

Pencil drawings of carved trees

Detailed sketches of scarred trees, location unknown - patterns might be traceable

UQFL2:1639-1641

Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1977

‘Similarity of games played by the Australian Aboriginal and the Papuan children’

Warburton Ranges, WA; Ngada tribe; Mamu-Tjitji children‘s game; Northern Queensland - children’s honey game

UQFL2:1833

Perrott, A. H.

Letter 22 Dec 1926 ... re: rocks cut or carved by Aborigines

Letter refers to Aboriginal carvings in rocks located Southeast of Dalby, gives description

UQFL2:2009

Stanley, George Arthur Vickers, 1904-1965.

String-figures of the North Queensland aborigines, 1926

Records of string figures - included report says of no ethnographical significance; no record of where these were recorded.

UQFL2: 2236

 

Tasmanian Blacks

An address delivered to an historical society

UQFL2:4016

Vogan, Arthur James.

‘The case for the Aborigines’

Political situation in Australian in the late 1800’s ; author of ‘The Black Police’

UQFL2:2579

Vogan, Arthur James.

Letter 24 Nov 1891 to Vogan from Charles H Allen Secretary British and Foreign Antislavery Society re Black Police, his committee‘s view that Aboriginal affairs should be work of Aborigines Protection Society

Treatment of Australian Aborigines

UQFL2:2582

Vogan, Arthur James.

Letter to Vogan from William Saumarez Smith, Archbishop of Sydney, in reply to request for support of demand for Royal Commission to investigate abuse of Aborigines. Reluctant to act without further evidence.

Author of ‘The case for the Aborigines’, brief mention of massacres of Mt Catherine and Niagara, Anderson case.

UQFL2:2583

Vogan, Arthur James.

Letter 4 Feb 1913 Vogan to Mr Earp, resigning from Executive, Association for the Protection of the Native Races of Australia & Polynesia, on the grounds that it is not fulfilling its original functions, and thos on it are ignorant of Aboriginal matters.

 

UQFL2:2581

Watson, F. J.

Aboriginal nomenclature of the Moreton Bay Tribes

 

UQFL2:2833

Watson, F. J.

Letters to D.A. O‘Brien, 1944

Letters concern Aboriginal vocabularies, does not mention clans, or locations

UQFL2:3888

Welsby, Thomas, 1858-1941

Letter 6 March 1928 to Edward Leo Hayes.

Discusses Leichhardt Aboriginal artefacts, disappearance of Moreton Bay; tribes.

UQFL2:2635

Williams, T. A.

The Australian Aborigine

Late 1800‘s early 1900‘s conceptions of origins and ethnicity of Aboriginal Australians

UQFL2:2230

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