Digital dialogues on diet: harvesting the archive for alternative patterns in Queensland food culture
Eva Phillips and Georgia Rolls

Resource List

Note: An asterisk (*) shows sources quoted or adapted in the piece ‘only absorption: made visible.’ A caret (^) indicates sources used for research in ‘The politics of food.’

Secondary Sources

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^ Buttrose, Ellie, ‘MEGAN COPE’S ‘RE FORMATION’ TAKES THE OYSTER SHELL AS ITS SUBJECT’, 8 Jan 2020. https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/megan-copes-reformation-takes-the-oyster-shell-as-its-subject-water/.

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^*Kerkhove, Ray. ‘Aboriginal Trade in Fish and Seafoods to Settlers in Nineteenth-Century South-East Queensland: A Vibrant Industry?’. Queensland Review 20, no. 2 (2013): 144-56.

Kerkhove, Ray. ‘Indigenous Aboriginal Sites of Southside Brisbane.’ Mapping Brisbane History, 2014. https://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/brisbane-history-essays/brisbane-southside-history/first-australians-and-original-landscape/indigenous-sites/.

Kerkhove, Ray. ‘Aboriginal Camps as Urban Foundations? Evidence from Southern Queensland.’ Aboriginal History 42. (2018): 141-72.

*Keys, Cathy. ‘Sharing the Waterways: Shark-Proof Swimming, Penal Detention and the Early History of St Helena Island, Moreton Bay.’ Queensland Review 27, no. 2 (2020): 121-36.

Krichnauff, Skye. ‘A Boomerang, Porridge in the Pocket and Other Stories of “the Blacks’ Camp”.’ Journal of Australian Studies 43, no. 3. (2019): 299–316.

Larner, S. ‘Bountiful Bunyas: A Charismatic Tree with a Fascinating History.’ State Library of Queensland, (2021). https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/bountiful-bunyas-charismatic-tree-fascinating-history.

^Marshall, Candice and Scott, Peter. ABC News Shell Midden provides insight into Indigenous life; podcast Burleigh Heads: the indigenous side, 1 June 2012.
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^Murgha, Letitia. ‘Indigenous Science: Shell middens and fish traps’, Queensland Museum network (2012). https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2012/10/08/indigenous-science-shell-middens-and-fish-traps/.

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*Norman, S. J. 2010-2019 ongoing. Take this, for it is my body. Performance piece. https://www.sarahjanenorman.com/take-this-for-it-is-my-body.

*O’Leary, John. ‘“The Life, the Loves, of That Dark Race”: The Ethnographic Verse of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia.’ Australian Literary Studies 23, no. 1 (April 2007): 3-17.

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*Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing. ‘Artificial Reefs Locality Map, Moreton Bay Marine Park.’ Queensland Government, August 2015. https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/166904/artificial-reefs-locality-map.pdf.

^ Redland City Council. ‘Quandamooka: Local history as recorded since European settlement.’ Redlands Coast Timelines, Redland Libraries.
https://www.redland.qld.gov.au/download/downloads/id/3982/quandamooka_timeline.pdf.

Rentoul, Archie. Island of a Million Tears: History of Dunwich Benevolent Asylum 1866-1946. Inspire Publishing, 2015.

*Ryan, John Charles. Plants in Contemporary Poetry. 1 ed.: Routledge, 2017.

Sanderson, R. ‘Many Beautiful Things: Colonial Botanists’ Accounts of the North Queensland Rainforests.’ Historical Records of Australian Science 18 (2007): 1-18.

Santich, Barbara. ‘Nineteenth-Century Experimentation and the Role of Indigenous Foods in Australian Food Culture.’ Australian Humanities Review 51, no. 1 (November 2011): NA.

Singley, Blake. ‘Parrot Pie and Possum Curry—how Colonial Australians Embraced Native food,’ (26 Jan 2017). https://theconversation.com/parrot-pie-and-possum-curry-how-colonial-australians-embraced-native-food-59977.

Steffens M., Jamieson L. and Kapellas, K. ‘Historical Factors, Discrimination and Oral Health among Aboriginal Australians.’ Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Undeserved 27, no. 1. (2016): 30-45.

*Stewart, Douglas, and Keesing, Nancy (eds). Australian Bush Ballads. Australian Classics. North Ryde: Angus & Robertson, 1955.

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*Tyquiengco, Marina. ‘Source to Subject: Fiona Foley’s Evolving Use of Archives.’ Genealogy 4, no. 3 (2020).

*Vickery, Ann. ‘A ‘Lonely Crossing’: Approaching Nineteenth-Century Australian Women’s Poetry.’ Victorian Poetry 40, Spring, no. 1 (2002): 33-54.

White, Jessica. ‘“The Most Formidable Teeth”: Gardening, Collecting, and Violence in Nineteenth Century South-Western Australia.’ Tamkang Review 51, no. 1 (2020): 85-108.

Woodcock, Shannon. ‘Biting the Hand That Feeds: Australian Cuisine and Aboriginal Sovereignty in the Great Sandy Strait.’ Feminist Review 1, no. 114. (2016): 33-47. https://www.academia.edu/31146264/biting_the_hand_that_feeds_Australian_cuisine_and_Aboriginal_sovereignty_in_the_Great_Sandy_Strait.

Primary Sources

Archival

*QSA Item number ITM291083, Dixon, Robert. Moreton Bay Trigonometrical Survey – Angles and Sketches at Moreton Bay, Surveyor Dixon 24 May 1840 – 11 September 1840. https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM291083.

Ravenstein, F. ‘General Map of Australia and Tasmania or Van Diemen’s Land.’ Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1857. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229935087.

Photographic

^A folk art painted pearl shell with Queensland Aboriginal scene, titled lower right ‘Burnett River, Queensland, 20x19cm.’ Lot 459, Sale 467 ‘Australian and Historical’, Leski Auctions. ©Leski Auctions.
https://auctions.leski.com.au/lot-details/index/catalog/551/lot/170630/A-folk-art-painted-pearl-shell-with-Queensland-Aboriginal-scene-titled-lower-right-Burnett-River-Queensland-19th-century-20-x-19cm.

^Dr H. W. B. Henderson, Tripcony Family Members on Con Tripcony’s Oyster Cutter “Nancy” in Moreton Bay ca 1889. Image Number P87024, Sunshine Coast Libraries.

^Dugong Fishing c1890, John Oxley Library copy print collection. Not digitised.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/200691274?keyword=photograph%20of%20dugong%20and%20dugong%20fishing.

^ Dugong fishermen huts at Amity Point on Stradbroke Island, 1891. State Library of Queensland, Negative Number 165983.
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^Campbell, Archibald James. Oyster shell heap left by Aboriginal people, 1870. National Library of Australia.
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^Megan Cope with her Artwork ‘RE FORMATION 2019’ at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/megan-copes-reformation-takes-the-oyster-shell-as-its-subject-water/.

^A pair of rare and important hand-painted clam shells depicting North Queensland Aboriginal scenes, 19th century, monogrammed M.G. approximate size 17 x 27 cm each. © Mossgreen Auctions.
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^ Aboriginal Australians at Meal Time in the Bloomfield River District. State Library of Queensland Digital Library: Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 1885. https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2656030.

Aboriginal Man, Woman and Children Fishing in a River near Croydon, Queensland, Ca. 1895. State Library of Queensland, 1895. https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?change_lng=en&dps_pid=IE1206561.

Aboriginal women and children at Myora mission, Stradbroke Island. State Library of Queensland, 2011.
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Men Fishing with Nets in the Caboolture River near Beachmere, 1890s. State Library of Queensland, 1890. https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?change_lng=en&dps_pid=IE1605548.

^Oyster Cutter, Pumicestone Passage, 1894. Sunshine coast Libraries, Image Number P87069.
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Newspapers

Robinson, T and Wade, H. ‘Sketches of Life in Queensland.’ Trove, 1884.
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Roth, W. E. ‘Ethnology – Aboriginal Food Vi.’ The Queenslander (Brisbane), 11 Jan 1902, p.58. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21619567/2519247.

^Unicorn. ‘The Oyster Industry: Its Origin and Development’ The Queenslander (Brisbane), 15 July 1922, 41. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27433269.

W. T. ‘The Sketcher.’ The Queenslander (Brisbane), 1886.
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An Aboriginal Mission.’ Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth), 1881. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199461301.

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^’Home Decorations: Shell Painting’. The Queenslander (Brisbane), 25 Nov 1889,
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^’Local intelligence’, Courier 17 Aug 1861, 2.
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^ No title, Brisbane Courier, 19 Jan 1865, 2.
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*Moreton Bay Horticultural Society. ‘Agricultural Resources of Moreton Bay.’ The People’s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, 2 April 1853.
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