Exploitation

Henry Dan, also known as Seaman Dan from Thursday Island, ready for helmet-and-corselet diving on the Paxie, 1956. The corselet has an 11 lb weight at the front and 14 lb weight at the back to facilitate descent. Photograph by courtesy of Henry Dan, Collection of Regina Ganter

Photograph by courtesy of Henry Dan, Collection of Regina Ganter

Georgie Wallis and Sammy Bowder cleaning pearl-shell on the deck of Keith Bradford’s Phyllis, c1950. Photograph by courtesy of Pedro Guivarra, Collection of Regina Ganter

Photograph by courtesy of Pedro Guivarra, Collection of Regina Ganter

Bully Drummond showing an unusually large coral-encrusted pearl-shell, 1949. After the war the re-entry of Japanese divers was controversial and Torres Strait Islanders were able to demonstrate their skill and daring as deep-sea divers. Drummond is wearing a hair net and cut-up blanket under the diving dress. Photograph by courtesy of Ken Corn, Collection of Regina Ganter

Photograph by courtesy of Ken Corn, Collection of Regina Ganter

The pearling fleet leaves Kushimoto, 1953. The first post-war pearling fleet was farewelled from Kushimoto in 1953. For the people of Kushimoto, sending this fleet to Australia seemed like the resumption of an old tradition. However, the entry of the Japanese fleet into what Australia now claimed as sovereign territory followed protracted negotiations, because Australia sought to assert the new international doctrine of sovereignty over its ‘continental shelf’. The Japanese government eventually acknowledged Australia’s territorial claim and agreed to catch quotas and size limitations.

Photograph by courtesy of Shishio Takai, Collection of Regina Ganter

Pearling

Pearling became the largest industry in far north Queensland in the 1890s and had a massive impact on coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Timber jewellery box

Naive art timber jewellery box in the shape of Queensland with kangaroo insert. Towns named are Gold Coast, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Mount Isa, Cairns and Weipa, c1950. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Centre for the Government of Queensland

20 October 2010

Timber souvenir bookcase, 1958

'Timber souvenir from the jungle rain forests of North Queensland', 1958. Good Wood Goods (GudWudGuds), Cairns. 'Included in this souvenir are Top and underside - Nth Qld Silky Oak, Left map - Rich Stum figured Nth Qld Maple, Right map - NQ Walnut'. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cairns

1 January 1958

20 October 2010

Dimensions

127mm

292mm

141mm

Cathedral Fig Tree, Boar Pocket Road, Lake Barrine. Postcard Murray Views Collection c1970-2000. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Hauling timber, Queensland, c1910. Postcard Valentine & Sons, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

Cedar log at the 1897 exhibition, Bowen Park. Product of the North Queensland Timber Co. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Exploitation

Seaman Dan from Thursday Island, 1956

Cleaning pearl shell, c1950

Diver with encrusted pearl-shell, 1949

The pearling fleet leaves Kushimoto, 1953

Pearling

Timber jewellery box

Timber souvenir bookcase, 1958

Cathedral Fig Tree, Lake Barrine

Hauling timber, Queensland, c1910

Cedar log at the 1897 exhibition, Bowen Park