KOWANYAMA PROJECT NEWS
Historic frontier clothing collection
QLD Police Museum Brisbane Roma Street 2021
With the help of historic photographs and examples of original clothing and reproductions from museums, like the Queensland Police Museum, Kowanyama Collection is developing a representative collection of uniforms and other equipment.
Kowanyama Collections has entered an interesting stage in its development with a number of recent acquisitions of historical objects in 2020. Some acquisitions are covered in this issue. A number of objects representing the arrival of European contact in the region as early as the 1860’s with The Jardine Expedition and the expansion of the cattle industry just two decades later with the establishment of the Native Mounted Police at Cairo Lagoon 1885-1900 on Highbury. Highbury Station was established later as an early part of the Wrotham Park Holdings. Maddock Hughes moved from Highbury in 1914 where he worked, to take up the vacant Koolatah block. An earlier attempt to establish Old Koolatah on the Alice River had been made in the late 1880’s after the establishment of Dunbar by Hungerford and Geddes. The settler named the Alice River after his wife. Kowanyama Project’s intention is to provide an iconic Historic and Cultural Collection for Cape York and Gulf Region. Something that will become an asset for us all to tell the story of the history of Cape York.
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Kowanyama Collection Part of the Historical Collection
