Yarrabah – Sports Day – Yarrabah – 1952 May
Item
Sport
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Competition Type
Community-based
Communities Involved
Yarrabah See all items with this value
Start Date
May 29, 1952
Place
Title
Yarrabah – Sports Day – Yarrabah – 1952 May
Description
Report titled “Yarrabah Mission Diamond Jubilee Celebrations 29 May 1952”, with 2 pages of photos (pp. 617-18). Entertainments included spear-fighting (George Wilson in one photo), boomerang throwing, Island dances and the Old Ladies’ Club Swinging (p. 620). Source: North Queensland Notes, October 1952, pp. 616-620.
Visit to Yarrabah by the Primate of Australia and New Zealand for 60th anniversary jubilee celebrations on 29 May 1952. Demos of spear and boomerang throwing, plus “Indian Club exercises done by grandmothers who been taught them 57 years ago by Canon Gribble!” Source: Northern Churchman, 1 July 1952, p. 9
Competitors
George Wilson See all items with this value
