Summary

These papers concern research undertaken by Gordon Grimwade, a former postgraduate student of James Cook University's Material Culture Unit, into the Muluridji people of far northern Queensland, who roamed the area in the vicinity of what is now Mareeba. They maintained their existence through hunting and gathering within their traditional boundaries, which reached from: the headwaters of the Mitchell River; north to Mount Carbine; east to Rumula; south to Mareeba; west to Woodville, chiefly in the drier country west of the main rain forest margin between Biboohra and Mount Molloy. In the local Aboriginal language, Mareeba means "meeting place of the waters" and refers to the point where the Barron River is joined by Granite Creek. The research materials in this collection concern the 1980s proposed publication on the topic of the Muluridjis' material culture.