Gia (QLD)

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Location: Bowen to St. Helens and Mount Dalrymple; inland to Clarke Range; at Proserpine, Gloucester Head, Gloucester Island, and Repulse Bay; not at Cape Conway.

Co-ordinates: 148°30'E x 20°30'S

Area: 1,600 sq. m. (4,200 sq. km.)

References: Shea in Curr, 1887; Roth, 1903; Davidson, 1938; Tindale, 1938 MS, 1940.

Alternative Names: Kia, Bumbara (place name, probably a horde), Bumbarra.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/15/177 - 'Mackay - Bowen and Barrier Reef Island' (Queensland)

Item AA 338/18/22 - Clermont (3234)

Item AA 338/22/46/1-2 - Maps of Australia showing skin rugs, cloaks and bags