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Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture 12
'Wild Australia': Performers, productions and politics
Series Editor: Geraldine Mate, PhD
Issue Editor: Paul Memmott, PhD, AO
Published: 2021
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Culture Volume 12 is available in hardcopy from the Museum Shop. Wild Australia: performers, productions and politics was written as part of the ARC Linkage Project ‘How Meston’s “Wild Australia Show” shaped Australian Aboriginal History. The volume contains 5 peer reviewed papers that delve further than before and apply new methodologies and perspectives into this theme.
Acknowledgements and Foreword
Thompson, J.
Published online: June 2021
Introduction
Nugent, M.
Published online: June 2021
Photographic Identification of the Troupe Members of the Wild Australia Show
Aird, M. & Memmott, P.
Published online: June 2021
A Man of the 'Wild' Queensland Frontier: King Gida of the Kaurareg
Memmott, P., Richards, J. & Kane, J.
Published online: June 2021
‘The (Not-So) Sacred Ibis’ – Archibald Meston, The Colonial Collector, and the Queensland Museum
Price, S., Allen, L. & Knowles, C.
Published online: June 2021
'Where is the Aboriginal Act?': Archibald Meston and the emergence of Aboriginal policy in Queensland
Memmott, P. & Richards, J.
Published online: June 2021
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