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WWW9 – Amsterdam 2000
The Quinkan Web Catalogue
– a cultural activity
Noelene Cole & Liddy NevileMelbourne IT, Australia
http://www.australianrockart.com
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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.
WWW9 – Amsterdam 2000This is at the Quinkan Gallery.
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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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