Person
McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888 - 1957)
- Born
- 1888
Cressbrook, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 6 November 1957
Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Anthropologist and Ethnographer
Summary
Ursula McConnel undertook research into the Aboriginal peoples of the Gulf of Carpentaria region of the Cape York Peninsula 1927-1928 and 1934.
Archival resources
State Records of South Australia
- Ursula McConnel - Records, 1934 - 1953, A.D. 49; State Records of South Australia. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Marcus, Julie, First in their field: women and Australian anthropology (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989), 205 pp. Details
Book Sections
- O'Gorman Perusco, Anne, 'Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel - Her Collecting and Collection' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 419-42. Details
- O'Gorman, A., 'The snake, the serpent and the rainbow: Ursula Mcconnel and Aboriginal Australians' in First in their field: women and Australian anthropology, Marcus, Julie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1893), pp. 85-109. Details
- Perusco, Anne O'Gorman, 'McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888-1957), Anthropologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 178-179. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150214b.htm. Details
Edited Books
- McKay, Judith ed., Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1997), 80 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- McConnel, U. H., 'Native arts and industries on the Archer, Viendall and Holroyd Rivers, Cape Yorke Peninsula, North Queensland', Records of the South Australian Museum, 11 (1) (1953), 1-42. Details
- Sutton, P., 'Ursula McConnel's Tin Trunk: a Remarkable Recovery', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 134 (2010), 101-14. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Rothwell, Nicolas, 'Enigma Variations', The Weekend Australian (2009), 6-7. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7901259. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/234662345. Details
- 'McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-639321. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 April 2010
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