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McConnel Collection

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More than 350 Aboriginal artefacts collected by U.H. McConnel, mostly among the Wik peoples of Cape York, Qld in the 1930s

Full description

Comprehensive collection of Wik material culture, including women's objects, toys, ceremonial material, hunting and gathering objects.

Notes

Further information may be found in S.A. Museum specimen documentation files. For a description of the recent rediscovery of a significant quantity of McConnel's archival material, see: P. Sutton 2010 'Ursula Mcconnel's Tin Trunk: A Remarkable Recovery' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vo.134(1), pp.101-14. McConnell's S.A. Museum ethnographic collection is published in U. McConnel, 1953, Native arts and industries on the Archer, Kendall, and Holroyd rivers, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, Records of the South Australian Museum Vol. 11, no.1 (for other refs, see Wikipedia article below). Related collections notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives; McConnel ethnographic material also held in Australian Museum, Sydney and Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_McConnel. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150214b.htm

Data time period: 1927 to 1934

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text: Yarrabah

text: Mapoon

text: Batavia River

text: Gulf of Carpentaria

text: Weipa Mission

text: Kendall River

text: Cairns

text: Daintree River

text: Princess Charlotte Bay

text: Archer River

text: Cape York Peninsula

text: Queensland

Subjects
Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal material culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Bags | Ceremonial objects | Containers | Drugs | Early to mid 20th century | Edged Weapons | Indigenous foods | Personal adornments | Pigments | Projectile weapons | Toys | U.H. McConnel | Ursula Hope McConnel | axe | bag | basket | boomerang | club | container | cordage | fire-making | food | knife | material | medical | message | musical instrument | musical instruments | narcotic | ornament | pigment | plume | shield | sorcery | spear | spear-thrower | tools | toy | weapons |

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