A Big Country – Peninsula People (1968)
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It's very interesting to see this clip of my father Percy, in the early days of research into the Quinkan rock art of Cape York Peninsula. There are 2 errors in the caption: TREZISE, not Tresize; and the reference to "the Gulf country" should be "the Peninsula", it's a long way from the Gulf.
#1 from MattTrezise – 9 years, 3 months ago.
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We should also correct the reference to Dick Roughsey as a local elder - Dick Roughsey (Goobalathaldin) was an elder of the Lardil of Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria; Dick and Percy were working together as artists when they became interested in the rock art, and Dick was the key to making friends with the elders of Quinkan Country; the series of children's picture books were co-written by them and the paintings in the books were also composite works, with Percy painting the landscapes and Dick the human and animal figures.
#2 from MattTrezise – 9 years, 3 months ago.
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