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Queens Park Cultural Interpretive signage, 2016
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TitleQueens Park Cultural Interpretive signage, 2016Date Created5 October 2016PhotographerTina LongfordAcknowledgementIpswich City Council, Environment & Sustainability Branch, Infrastructure and Environment Department
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DescriptionCulture Interpretive signage explaining the significance of Queens Park.
Signage wording:
Indigenous Culture
Queens Park is a significant area to the Yagara People as traditionally it was used for ceremonies, inter-clan meetings, trade events and resource harvesting.
Cultural Landscape
Cultural landscapes within Ipswich encompass tangible Aboriginal archaeological sites such as stone scatters, scarred trees, axe-grinding sites, quarries, burials, rock shelters, and stone arrangements. Intangible sites include landscapes of spiritual, ceremonial or social significance, and women's areas or increase sites. Historical events such as massacre sites, fringe camps and missions also from part of the cultural landscape.
In Queens Park, Aboriginal People utilised the chalcedony and silicified limestone resource fo4r trading and tool making.
The flowering spike from Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea) was used for making fishing spears and fire sticks, while the resin was an invaluable adhesive. The roots were eaten, while the nectar from the flowers was used as a sweet-tasting drink. Interestingly, the resin was also used as a gum.
Ceremonial-bora grounds
Two bora grounds were located within Queens Park, one inside the current boundary of the park (towards Milford Street) and the other across Queen Victoria Parade (Ipswich Girls Grammar School).
Bora grounds were traditionally used for a variety of functions including dispute settlement, councils of war and social organisation, initiation, rituals, ceremonies and corroborees.
Social-ritualised fighting
Ritualised fighting took place in Queens Park. Ritualised fights played an important part in traditional Aboriginal society, it was also an essential element of many bora grounds. They usually occurred after a bora council and often related to illegal hunting on another clans territory.
Commonly a warrior, would ritually paint himself with ochre and then take his place in a line to receive the spars of the opposition. A man who had committed an illegal act would be invited to step forward and take the blame, such an invitation could never be refused. After fighting ceased for the day, the warriors fraternised.
Reference
Strong, M. H. & S. Maurer, 2011. Rebuilding the Campfires: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Investigation of Queens Park, Ipswich, Southeast Queensland Report TA-72 for Jagera Daran P/L Sandstone Point, Turnstone Archaeology
Signage wording:
Indigenous Culture
Queens Park is a significant area to the Yagara People as traditionally it was used for ceremonies, inter-clan meetings, trade events and resource harvesting.
Cultural Landscape
Cultural landscapes within Ipswich encompass tangible Aboriginal archaeological sites such as stone scatters, scarred trees, axe-grinding sites, quarries, burials, rock shelters, and stone arrangements. Intangible sites include landscapes of spiritual, ceremonial or social significance, and women's areas or increase sites. Historical events such as massacre sites, fringe camps and missions also from part of the cultural landscape.
In Queens Park, Aboriginal People utilised the chalcedony and silicified limestone resource fo4r trading and tool making.
The flowering spike from Grass Trees (Xanthorrhoea) was used for making fishing spears and fire sticks, while the resin was an invaluable adhesive. The roots were eaten, while the nectar from the flowers was used as a sweet-tasting drink. Interestingly, the resin was also used as a gum.
Ceremonial-bora grounds
Two bora grounds were located within Queens Park, one inside the current boundary of the park (towards Milford Street) and the other across Queen Victoria Parade (Ipswich Girls Grammar School).
Bora grounds were traditionally used for a variety of functions including dispute settlement, councils of war and social organisation, initiation, rituals, ceremonies and corroborees.
Social-ritualised fighting
Ritualised fighting took place in Queens Park. Ritualised fights played an important part in traditional Aboriginal society, it was also an essential element of many bora grounds. They usually occurred after a bora council and often related to illegal hunting on another clans territory.
Commonly a warrior, would ritually paint himself with ochre and then take his place in a line to receive the spars of the opposition. A man who had committed an illegal act would be invited to step forward and take the blame, such an invitation could never be refused. After fighting ceased for the day, the warriors fraternised.
Reference
Strong, M. H. & S. Maurer, 2011. Rebuilding the Campfires: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Investigation of Queens Park, Ipswich, Southeast Queensland Report TA-72 for Jagera Daran P/L Sandstone Point, Turnstone Archaeology
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