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Margaret Lawrie Collection
Margaret Lawrie Collection
Between 1964 and 1973, Margaret Lawrie recorded many Torres Strait Islander genealogies (family trees) and other cultural information including vocabularies, music and photographs. The material relates to seventeen Torres Strait Islander communities:
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The Margaret Lawrie Collection was officially donated to the State Library of Queensland in 1996 and is held in the John Oxley Library (see catalogue record). Torres Strait Islanders wishing to access this material should contact Heritage Collections.
Online exhibitions
- Bioptaim - Stories from the Torres Strait
- Meriba Gidhal: Torres Strait Island Treasures of the Margaret Lawrie Collection
- ReTold - A re-telling of stories and songs from Myths and legends of the Torres Strait
See also
- Margaret Lawrie Collection access conditions
- Margaret Lawrie's published works
- Jorn Harbeck's paper about the Margaret Lawrie Collection [new window
12 kb] delivered at the Access to Indigenous Records National Forum in 2003.
Last updated: 25th November 2010
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