Gordon Grimwade Archive
These papers concern research undertaken by Gordon Grimwade, a former postgraduate student of James Cook University’s Material Culture Unit, into the Muluridji people of far northern Queensland, who roamed the area in the vicinity of what is now Mareeba. They maintained their existence through hunting and gathering within their traditional boundaries, which reached from: the headwaters of the Mitchell River; north to Mount Carbine; east to Rumula; south to Mareeba; west to Woodville, chiefly in the drier country west of the main rain forest margin between Biboohra and Mount Molloy. In the local Aboriginal language, Mareeba means “meeting place of the waters” and refers to the point where the Barron River is joined by Granite Creek. The research materials in this collection concern the 1980s proposed publication on the topic of the Muluridjis' material culture.
Archive Location: 182R
Detailed Listing
GGP/1/ Correspondence/ 1981-1986 letters; with draft hand-written notes on Muluridji research at back
GGP/2/ Research/1/ Draft version of Muluridji: A Material Culture Reconstruction, dated 31 August 1981
GGP/3/ Research/2/ Draft version of Muluridji: A Material Culture Reconstruction, dated 31 August 1981, with author’s note on copying approval, 23 November 1981
GGP/4/ Research/3/ Draft version of Muluridji: A Material Culture Reconstruction, dated 31 August 1981, with author’s note on copying approval, August 1984
GGP/5/ Research/4/ Draft version of Muluridji Material Culture
GGP/6/ Research/5/ Draft version of Muluridji Material Culture
GGP/7/ Research/6/ Draft version of Muluridji Material Culture, for Prof. B.G. Reynolds
GGP/8/ Research/7/ Notes and ideas regarding early draft of Muluridji Material Culture
GGP/9/ Research/8/ Relics Report Forms, 1973-1974
GGP/10/ Research/9/ Folder containing maps, notes, correspondence
GGP/11/ Research/10/ Research papers:
i. Barrie Reynolds (ed.), Australian Material Culture, vol. 1. Northeast
ii. Barrie Reynolds, Beothuk
iii. Anthony J. Barham, Physical Environment of Torres Strait
GGP/12/ Research/11/ Audiocassette tapes:
i. L . Levers, May 1981, Tape 1, with notes concerning Lucy Levers, c. 82 years old, interview 13/7/84
ii. Willie Shepherd re Mona Mona, 27/11/80
GGP/13/ Research/12/ Photographs:
i. A-WT 4 from Mareeba with explanatory letter
ii. Contact sheet with shots of Australian bushland
iii. Set of negatives regarding the above
GGP/14/ Research/13/ Index cards: notes on authors and publications, Aboriginal terminology, tapes
