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Trezise Collection of Archaeological Recordings

(held at JCU Library, Cairns)


Title: St George Cliff Shelter - Print.

Alt. Title: Shelter No. 1

Description: Helicopter Trip

Coverage: 1976-10-98


Title: Black Beehive - Print

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Description: "Group of 4 small galleries, 105 km SE of Early Man Gallery on Stone Axe Creek. This is site No. 2 and 70 m S of No. 4."

Coverage: 1976-07-19 to 1976-07-21


Title: Olive Vale Waterhole Gallery - Print

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Creator: Ed Oribin

Description: "Low overhanging shelter a top of W bank Laura River, just below Olive Vale homestead."

Coverage: 1976-05


Title: Quinkan Mountain, Site 1- Print

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Creator: Percy Trezise

Description:

Copy 2.

"Site 1, Quinkin Mountain. Pine Tree Creek. Jowalbina. Northerly aspect, good camping site, but poor archaeological prospect."

Coverage: 1976-10-19


Title: Black Beehive Shelters- Print

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Creator: Ed Oribin

Description:

Copy 2. Scale 1/4 FG. "Black Sugar Bag group of 3 small galleries 1.5 km SE of Early Man Gallety on Stone Axe Creek. This is site No .2 and 70 m S of No. 1 site."

Coverage: 1976-07-19 to 1976-07-21


Title:

Giant Wallaroo Gallery - Canvass

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Description: 1/4 scale.

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Title: Garfish Gallery, Brady Creek - Print

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Creator:

Description:

"Garfish Gallery. Completed 21.10.76. 400 m NW of Cookatoo Gallery on outlier 300 m below base of main scarp. Faces North. Only a small area suitable for occupation." Note: 2 identical sheets. One sheet has pencilled added post-printing that reads "2 of 2".

Coverage: 1976-10-21


Title: Zulu Huts - Print

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Description: "Completed 20/10/76. Zulu Huts Shelter. On East scarp of Pine Tree Creek. One kilometre SW to Quinkan Mountain. Easterly aspect. Low shallow shelter. Could be good archaelogical prospect, especially as it contains ancient engravings."

Coverage: 1976-10-20


Title: Quinkan Moutains + Zulu Huts - Print

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Description:

"Zulu Hut Gallery No. 1. 1 km NE of Quinkan Mountain. 19.10.76." "Pine Tree Creek, 1 of 2. A group of 3 pimple hills like Zulu Huts. This gallery is on the northern face of the smallest one. Some occupation." On the far side of the print: "Quinkan Moutain, Pine Tree Creek. Shelter No. 2, 100 m W of Shelter 1. Completed 18/19.10.1976."

"Site details: 1:40. A damp site. No occupation. Ferns growing out of crevices. Steep fall into large waterpool directly below this shelter."

Coverage: 1976-10-18 to 1976-10-19


Title: Dilly Bag Group- Print

Alt. Title: Shelter 2

Creator:

Description: "Small shelter leaning 150° [illegible, possibly M or W] from Dilly Bag Gallery (80 m) faces 060°[illegible, possibly M or W]

Coverage: 1975-07


Title: The Quinkins (1985) + Platypus Dreaming - Print

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Description:

Note: the recorder mentions there is a 2nd sheet showing more Quinkan figures on either sides of the depicted group, "In a small rock shelter opposite Quinkan Cave."

Coverage: 1975-07


Title: Dilly Bag Creek, Deighton River Fall- Print

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Creator: P J Trezise ; Ed Oribin

Description: "Plan showing distribution of principal figures. Scale 1:50." Note: Also includes elevations from several orientations.

Coverage: 1975-08


Title: Giant Horse Gallery- Print

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Description: -

Coverage: 198?-07-30


Title: Top spring Shelter, Pine Tree Creek, 1976 - Print

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Description:

"Top Spring Shelter, Pine Tree Creek located at base of a cliff on W scarp approx. 3 km W of Quinkan Mountain. Pack horse expedition." Note: Sheet 2 of 2

Coverage: 1976-09-09


Title: Giant Wallaroo Galleries No. 1, Pine Tree Creek- Print

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Description: Scale 1:80 Note: Recorded in part 10.9.1976; Includes Site Plan. Includes motifs from Gallery No. 2 with the following note: "Figures on W/S isolated rock, Giant Wallaroo Gallery, 11.9.76".

Coverage:

1976-09-10

Title: Top Spring Shelter - Print

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Description: Sheet 1 of 2. Western scarp of Pine Creek. Plan 25 mm=1 m

Coverage:

1976-09-09

Title: Black Beehive No. 1 + Curly Hair Girl - Print

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Creator:

Description: "Curly Hair Girl Gallery, 1.5 km South of Possum Gallery. Small low recess faces SW." "No.1 Black Beehive, 1.5 km SE Early man on top corner of scarp."

Coverage:

1976-07-21

Title: Upper Kennedy Creek Conglomerates - Print

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Creator: Ed Oribin

Description:

Note: No.1, Chart 2, 1978. Scale: 1:4. "The print also includes 2 figures on a small recess 15 m from main gallery (North). Several other small recesses with indistinct drawings and hand stencils in between."

Coverage:

1975-05-09 to 1975-05-11


Title: Ginger Creek Galleries - Print

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Description:

Note: This print includes drawings recorded in Galleries 1-6. "No.1 Head Gallery (2) 80 m N of Gallery 1. good camping shelter faces NE. Recorded June 1976, completed 16.6.76. - These figures are on ceiling" "Ginger Creek No. ? Head Gallery 6." "Gallery 1, 12 & 13-06-1976" "Gallery 3: small shelter 10 m E of Gallery 2, faces SW figures on ceiling - very old - rocky floor" "Gallery 1: open shelter facing N. Rocky floor not suitable for camping. figures low down on wall. All figures except top faded one done at the same time with the same past." "Gallery 4: small open fronted shelter facing SW. No occupation. Just down the path from 2 and 3." "Gallery 5: large shelter with fallen slab at front. Good camping shelter, 200m W of 2 and 3."

Coverage: 1976-06-12 to 1976-06-13


Title: Palmer River Limestones - Print

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Creator: Percy Trezise; Ed Oribin

Description:

Inlcudes: Inquest Shelter Site No. 1, group 1 and 4; Inquest Shelter Site No. 2, group 3; Inquest Shelter Site 3, group 1 and 2. Also includes Site Plan for Site 3, Scale 1:50.

Coverage: 1976


Title: Upper Kennedy Creek - Print

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Description: Chart 2

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Title: Dilly Bag Gallery- Print

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Description:

Shelter 3 and 4. "Stencilled boomerang shelter, 50 yards of Dilly Bag. Most of these stencils appear to be very old. The red employed is brighter and more orange than in the more recent figures elsewhere. Does the red ochre change colour over a long period of exposure? There are several other very faded small hand stencils not [recorded?] here. This appears to be ancient 'school' for boys or emu hunting."

Coverage: 1975-07


Title: Stencilled Doll Group- Print

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Description:

Sheet 1: Shelter G + elevation Sheet 2: Stencilled Doll Gallery Sheet 3: Stencilled Doll group, shelter E and F (Aug. 1975) - "1 km NW of Stencilled Doll group. Dilly Bag Creek, Deighton Fall." Sheet 4: Shelter B and C Also includes recess facing N E shelter B.

Coverage: 1976-06-12 to 1976-06-13


Title: Dilly Bag - Print

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Description:

Note: This bundle is made up of 3 sheets. Sheet 1 of 3: no description. The motifs are marked as "ground level". Sheet 2 of 3: July 1975 Sheet 3 of 3: Dilly Bag gallery, 1/4 FS, July 1975

Coverage: 1975-07


Title: Early Man Gallery, Early Man Creek - Print

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Description:

"Engraving below natural ground level. Scale: 1:6."

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Title: Upper Kennedy Creek Conglomerates No. 1 - Print

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Creator: Percy Trezise

Description:

"Scale 1:4. 9 and 11-05-1975. Sheet No.1, Southern Road." Note: PT has noted the content of other sheets that are not part of this bundle. They are: sheet 2: north end; sheet 3: plan and section; sheet 4: southern sites.

Coverage: 1978


Title: St George Cliff Shelter No. 2 - Print

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Description:

"This is a very large conglomerate shelter, immediately at the back of shelter No. 1, approx. 250 m long. Faces North. Large overhang and camping area at W end. Figure 1 - 5 are at the eastern end of the shelter and 6 is towards centre." "There are remains of several small figures at the W end of the shelter (the camping end) but they are too faded and indistinct to record."

Coverage: 1976-10-09


Title: Mossman Gallery - Print

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Description:

2 sheets. Includes Site Plan.

Coverage: 1975-10


Title: The Quinkins - Print

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Creator: Percy Trezise

Description: Includes an insert for "Beehive site. Bottom of Gorge conglomerates, Garden Creek, May 1985. The insert is referenced by Thumbnail trz0030as.jpg

Coverage: 1985 1985-05


Title: Dilly Bag Gallery - Print

Alt. Title: Dillybag Creek, Deighton River Fall

Creator: Percy Trezise ; Ed Oribin

Description:

Includes Site Plan and Elevations. Two identical sheets. The plan shows the distribution of the principal figures.

Coverage: 1975-08


Title: Magnificent Gallery, Mossman Gorge - Tracing

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Creator: Percy Trezise

Description:

Note: Indicated as sheet 1 of 2. Scale 1/4 Full Size.

Coverage: 1977-11 to 1977-12


Title: Black Dog Creek, Star Shelter 13 (?) ; Little Man Site - Tracing

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Description:

Star Shelter: "Many hand stencils as per record sheets." Little Man Site: "Also contains old meander engraved lines + emu tracks + more recent macropodes tracks."

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Title: Sam Elliott Site - Tracing

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Description:

Note: 2 sheets. "Sheet 1 of 2, 102 figures, July 1978." Includes Site Plan. A note next to the site plan reads as follows: "Sam Elliott Site, 1:40, Low Star Creek, recording completed 6.9.78." "Very head of Lonestar Creek, off Maytown Track, in main shelter." "Sheet 2/2 of Sam Elliott Site, July 1978". Note: also includes Logan Jack Site, Craddle Creek (7.7.78) with site plan (1:40).

Note: There are handwritten notes by Noelene Cole, dated 1999, disputing this is Logan Jack because it is "on the other side of the Maytown Track, other side of Divide." "Percy says: not probably Logan Jack which is on Fish Creek."

Coverage: 1978-07-07 to 1978-09-06


Title: Echidna Creek (Western side), Deighton - Tracing

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Creator: Amy K. Hebel ; Lyn Boylan

Description:

Earth Watch 1986. Giant Emu Cave, recorded June 86 by Amy K. Hebel. (Drawings done by Lyn Boylan on another sheet goes to the right of this drawing).

Coverage: 1986-06


Title: Great Horse No. 1 - Tracing

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Description:

Sheet 1. "see sheet 2 with horse, etc ..."

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Title: White Lady Creek, Site 5 - Tracing

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Creator: Mary Haginikitas

Description:

"Site 5 Deighton River, White Lady Creek, Earth Watch, July 1985"

Coverage: 1985-07


Title: White Lady Creek, Site 3, Deighton River - Tracing

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Coverage: 1985


Title: Giant Catfish, Kennedy Creek - Tracing

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Title: Mystery Bags - Tracing

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Note: 2 'bits' of tracing sheets.

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Title: Brady Creek Sites - Tracing

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Creator: Percy Trezise; Earth Watch Project

Description:

"Brady Creek; Garfish Cave; open ironwood below tent; Flying Fox Gallery; Love magic and sorcery; Little Kennedy River engravings."

Coverage: 1983-07-24


Title: Yam Man (Site 1), Shepherd Creek - Tracing

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Creator: Steven Trezise

Description:

"Recorded by Steve Trezise, July 1983, Earth Watch exped."

Coverage: 1983-07


Title: Koala Site, Mossman - Tracing

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Creator: Steven Trezise

Description:

Earth Watch 1983.

Coverage: 1983


Title: The Anthropomorphic Shelter, - Tracing

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Creator: Steven Trezise

Description:

"Recorded by Steve Trezise, July 1983, Earth Watch exped."

Coverage: 1983-07 Koolburra (Check spelling)


Title: Guardian Site - Tracing

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Description:

"Main site with side gallery at Sandy Creek Mouth."

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Title: Cat Fish Dreamimg - Chart

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Creator: Ed Oribin

Description:

3 sites. "Also called Little Kennedy Site".

Inlcudes Little Kennedy River 1: "2nd terrace above and 200 m N of Carpet Snake Gallery, Little Kennedy, 19-07-1982". Includes Little Kennedy River 2: "All very old engravings. Completely patinated back to the original rock surface. 1/2 km south of main shelter, Little Kennedy. Accross gully to the north. Small mushroom shelter. Good small camping site." Includes Little Kennedy River 3: "1 km south W of Giant Catfish, Little Kennedy. Left hand end of shelter. Shelter is 14 m long. Very good camping site." Includes Catfish Dreaming No. 1, recorded 16.07.1982.

Coverage: 1982-07-16 to 1982-07-19


Title: Menagerie Mossman - Tracing

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Coverage: 1984


Title: Black Dog Creek; Yam Shelter Site 2 - Tracing Alt. Title:

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Description:

"The distance between drawings is 0.6 m."

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Title: Mossman River Main Camp - Tracing

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Creator: Ed Oribin ; Earth Watch

Description:

Coverage: 1983-08-10


Title: The Quinkins + [croc?]

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Description:

 

Coverage: 1982


Title: Garden Creek

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Creator: Earth Watch

Description:

"Small sites near Spotted Dog." The bundle has 4 'bits' of tracing paper featuring 8 locations. The site is described as follows: "Spotted Dog site, Garden Creek, Southerly aspect, base of scarp. Camping site. Sone artefacts - stone axe - 10 metres long, 3 metres high - 4 metres deep. Half floor sand, east half [rock falls?].

Coverage: 1984


Title: Cookatoo Gallery (tent shelter)

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Description:

"1 km S W junction Shepherd and Brady Creek. On Brady Creek on west side on outlier, 20 metres below main scarp. Completed recording 21.10.76. Portion of ceiling collapsed to form /\ tent inside main shelter. Many figures too faint to record except under ideal light conditions. Poor camping place and poor archaeological prospect."

Coverage: 1976-10-21


Title: Giant Horse Gallery - Tracing

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Coverage: 1983-07-30