The secret life of memorials : through the memory lens of the Australian South Sea islanders / Julie Kaye Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Julie Kaye, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Islanders--Australia.

Pacific Islanders.

Memorials--Australia.

Memorials.

Collective memory--Australia.

Collective memory.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations (some color), charts

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, [2019]

Summary:

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a new method for comprehending the many interleaving aspects of memory spaces, and should be of interest to heritage professionals, local councils and governing bodies, and members of the general public.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents Page

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Research Introduction

1.1 Introduction - Research Overview

1.2 Research Aims

1.3 Research Questions

1.4 Research Design

1.5 Overview of the Structure of the Research

1.6 Notes on Terminology

1.7 Memorials / Monuments

1.8 Conclusion

Figure 1.1: The Western South Pacific Ocean in relation to Australia (www.geographicguide.com)

Figure 1.2: South Sea Islands Labour Group in Daintree, Queensland 1870 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 189100)

Figure 1.3: Recruiting ship 'Para' by Ship Captain Wawn, 1880 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 65320)

Figure 1.4: South Sea Islanders on a labour vessel (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 16954)

Figure 1.5: Vanuatuan sand drawing of labour ship (Author's photo 2 June 2012)

Figure 1.6: History culture example - Islander Commemoration Festival 2013 ( www.assis.org.au )

Figure 2.1: Cartoon in The Bulletin 1886 of auction of South Sea Islander (Wikimedia Commons)

Figure 2.2: South Sea Islanders outside of a plantation building ca. 1870 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 189100)

Figure 2.3: South Sea Islanders Queensland, 1906 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 23815)

Figure 2.4: WANTOK Representatives (SBS News 7 November 2013)

Figure 2.5: The Isis Memorial Childers, Queensland (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 2.6: Islander traffic routes 1863 to 1902, from "The Blackbirders" (Docker 1970)

Figure 2.7: Islanders waiting for deportation in Cairns 1906 (State Library of Queensland, Negative no: 23842)

Figure 2.8: Board Game copyrighted in 1914 (National Archives Australia ID: 3423240).

Figure 2.9: Bundaberg South Sea Islanders Anniversary Festival Poster 2013 (Bundaberg Regional Council)

Figure 2.10: Islands visited by labour vessel Ariel in 1893 (Queensland State Archives, Item ID1235095, Correspondence)

Figure 2.11: Fairymead Mill, Bundaberg, c 1890 (Queensland State Archives, Image ID 3511)

Figure 2.12: South Sea Islander Huts, Childers 1904 (Queensland Historical Atlas from University of Queensland)

Figure 2.13: Pacific Islands Collection Adelaide Museum (Author's photo 16 March 2012)

Figure 2.14: Islanders in mixed European and Traditional attire, Mackay 1890 (State Library of Queensland, Negative No: 13355)

Figure 2.15: Yasso Point, named in memory of Mackay South Sea Islander couple (Author's photo 9 May 2013)

Figure 3.1: 'Ceremony with Turtle' by Andrew Tovovur (Author's photo 3 June 2012)

Figure 3.2: Mossman Canecutters Memorial (Author's photo 1 April 2012)

Figure 3.3: Integral grouping of aspects surrounding the ASSI labour event (past)

Figure 3.4: Integral grouping of attached themes determined from literatures (present)

Figure 3.5: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 2

Figure 3.6: Quadrant 3 - Quadrant 4

Figure 3.7: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 3

Figure 3.8: Quadrant 2 - Quadrant 4

Figure 3.9: Quadrant 2 - Quadrant 3

Figure 3.10: Quadrant 1 - Quadrant 4

Figure 4.1: Locations of thesis ASSI memory sites (detailed in Table 4.3)

Figure 4.2: ASSI Descendant Groups (in red - see key) set against historic Australian sugar cane cultivation areas of 1874 and 1884 (Griggs 2011:47)

Figure 4.3: Data entry template

Figure 4.4: Example of a statue memorial - The 'The Hoe Man' - Gordonvale

Figure 4.5: South Sea Islander Honour Roll

Figure 4.6: Chindera Cemetery

Figure 4.7: Ingham Immigrant Remembrance Wall

Figure 5.1: Buderim Kanaka Wall on Escarpment.

Figure 5.2: Yasso Point Marker, Bowen

Figure 5.3: Yasso Point Cairn, Bowen

Figure 5.4: Yasso Point Shelter And History Board, Bowen

Figure 5.5: Maryborough Kanaka Memorial

Figure 5.6: Point Vernon Cemetery signpost (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 5.7: North Queensland ASSI Fishery Falls Monument

Figure 5.8: 1880 SSI Specimens mixed (State Library of Queensland, Brandon album, ID 6298-0001-0020)

Figure 5.9: Gordonvale mosaic (Author's photo 21 June 2016)

Figure 5.10: 'River Reflections' mosaic panels - Innisfail

Figure 5.11: 'Take Me Too' tile and plaque (Author's photo 18 February 2014)

Figure 5.12: Childers Memorial Totem metal engraving (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 5.13: Forgotten People monument, Mackay (Author's photo 8 May 2013)

Figure 5.14: Interpretive Tree Guide, Mackay (Author's photo 8 May 2013)

Figure 5.15: Polson Cemetery, Point Vernon (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 6.1: Kanaka Monument (John Thompson) - Childers

Figure 6.2: John Thompson Memorial, Childers (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 6.3: Port Douglas Sugar Wharf(s)

Figure 6.4: Sugar Cube Memorial, Mackay

Figure 6.5: Oaklands Sugar Mill Remnants, Morayfield

Figure 6.6: Habana Tramline Causeway and Wharf Site details

Figure 6.7: South Sea Islanders' Sugar Wagon Trail - Yeppoon

Figure 6.8: Islander-built trail, Yeppoon

Figure 6.9: South Sea Islander Stone Wall - Mon Repos

Figure 6.10: Sunnyside Sugar Plantation (former) remains

Figure 6.11: Stone wall in farmland, Bargara (Author's photo 26 October 2013)

Figure 6.12: Replica stone wall, Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 6.13: Fitzgerald Landing Cairn, Innisfail

Figure 6.14: Old and new cairns, Fitzgerald Landing, Innisfail (Author's photo 21 June 2016).

Figure 6.15: Chjowai memorial, Innisfail (Author's photo 21 June 2013)

Figure 6.16: Pioneers Of The Sugar Industry Memorial - Innisfail

Figure 7.1: 'Forty-year-old white actor dressing up as a 14-year-old Tongan boy in brown face' (Bolitho 2014 - Image courtesy buzzed.com)

Figure 7.2: Bowen South Sea Islander Mural

Figure 7.3: Close up of local identities cameos on Bowen wall mural (Image courtesy http://www.robcaz.net/bowen.htm )

Figure 7.4: Cane farmer statue and mosaic, Gordonvale (Author's photo 21 June 2016)

Figure 7.5: Gordonvale mosaic - 'SUGAR - NATURE'S SWEET GIFT'

Figure 7.6: Example of interpretive board, Cairns Esplanade

Figure 7.7: Robert Towns statue, Townsville, QLD (Author's photo 10 May 2013)

Figure 7.8: Robert Towns statue with interpretive board, Townsville (Author's photo 10 May 2013)

Figure 7.9: Mossman Cane Cutters Memorial

Figure 7.10: South Sea Islander Totems, Childers (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 7.11: The Isis Kanaka Story - Childers

Figure 7.12: South Sea Islander Totems - Childers

Figure 7.13: Mackay South Sea Islander Canecutter Memorial

Figure 7.14: South Sea Islander (KANAKA) Memorial

Figure 7.15: Buderim Reconciliation At St Marks

Figure 7.16: Buderim South Sea Islander Memorial

Figure 7.17: Chindera Corowa Park

Figure 7.18: Corowa Park dedication newspaper clipping (Tweed Regional Museum)

Figure 8.1: Mackay Lagoons ASSI Meeting House, exterior-interior (Author's photos 8 May 2013)

Figure 8.2: Mackay Sugar Mill, from the Mackay Lagoons Meeting House (Author's photo 8 May 2013)

Figure 8.3: ASSI Original Family Trees Plantings 'The Forgotten People'

Figure 8.4: Mackay Homebush Mission Hall

Figure 8.5: St. John's Mission Church

Figure 8.6: Bundaberg Cemetery (Google Earth image 8 August 2008).

Figure 8.7: South Sea Islander Church And Hall - Bundaberg Cemetery

Figure 8.8: Underground oven 'cuppa murri', Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 8.9: Wood carvings, Bundaberg (Author's photo, 23 October 2013)

Figure 8.10: SSI Heritage and Community Complex layout, Bundaberg (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 8.11: Canecutter memorial, Point Vernon (Author's photo 23 October 2013)

Figure 8.12: Commemoration service honouring unmarked ASSI graves at Sunnyside Plantation, Bundaberg

Figure 8.13: Cudgeon Burial Ground, Chindera

Figure 8.14: Joskeleigh (Sandhills) Historical South Sea Islander Cemetery

Figure 8.15: Joskeleigh South Sea Islander Museum

Figure 8.16: Australian Sugar Heritage Centre (Museum) - Mourilyan 'South Seas

Figure 8.17: Refined White Exhibition

Figure 8.18: Display examples in the Australian Sugar Heritage Centre, Mourilyan (Author's photo 28 December 2012 )

Figure 8.19: 'Behind The Cane - The Untold Story Of South Sea Islanders In Australia' Musical

Figure 8.20: Romancing The Cane Festival

Figure 8.21: Integral grouping of ASSI-related memory sites as nodes in networked relationships

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Chapter 2: Research Context - Literatures

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 The ASSI Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox

2.2 Paradox One: The Song Of Homer

2.2.1 Historical Representation

2.2.2 Historiographical Representation

2.2.3 Concluding the Song of Homer

2.3 Paradox Two: The Ship of Theseus

2.3.1 Material Representation

2.3.2 Entangled / Shared Material Culture

2.3.3 A Rudderless Ship

2.4 Conclusion

Table 2.1: Australian Acts Specific to South Sea Islands Labour (Queensland Government State Archives)

Chapter 3: Theoretical Concepts - Liminal Spaces

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 What Is Memory From An Archaeological Viewpoint?.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 23, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789690965

178969096X