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Shows 13 Indigenous men wearing an assortment of traditional or European clothing, with some holding spears and boomerangs. All but one of the men is adorned with ceremonial body paint

Group of Aboriginal men, women and children. Some of the men carry spears; some of the men are adorned with traditional body paint and tribal marks (scarification on the torso)

Black & white photograph showing an aerial view of the Basilisk Range. Cane fields and the township of Moresby in the foreground

Black & white photograph. Aerial view of Basilisk Range and surrounding farmland

Black & white photograph. Aerial view of Basilisk Range and surrounding farmland taken from Henderson Drive. Small settlements just visible in foreground, and South Johnstone Mill visible in background on left side of image

Black and white photograph of Dunk Island from the air, probably in the 1940s. Edmund Banfield, the famous Beachcomber who lived on Dunk from 1897 to his death in 1923, recorded that the Aboriginal name for the isle was Coonanglebah. A resort was established here by Hugo Brassey in the 1930s. During WW2 Dunk Island was annexed by the RAAF and became home to secret radar equipment

Photograph of ex-Servicemen, Boy Scouts and other people outside the El Arish Hall, thought to be on Anzac Day, 1952. The El Arish Soldiers’ Memorial School of Arts was built by the community pioneers, and officially opened in October 1930. Balls, meetings, plays and many community events have been held here over the years

Photograph of the Anzac Day parade turning from Butler Street into Bryant Street towards the cenotaph near the Anglican Church. The Tully Stone of Remembrance was moved from the Tully cemetery, where it was erected in 1944, to Bryant Street near the Anglican Church in 1958, and then to Mitchell Park in 2002

Photograph of an Anzac Day march in Tully, possibly in the 1930s. The marchers are proceeding east down Butler Street, across Still Street. The Bank of New South Wales is on the left. A commemoration service was held in the Plaza Theatre on Anzac Day in the 1930s

Sepia photograph of brother and sister Ashley and Florence (Durdie) Butler arriving at the Tully Show, possibly in the 1950s. The Butler family lived at Murray Upper, on a property named "Fringford"