The Discipline of Dress: Uniform Buttons and Accoutrements of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, Australia
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Article Title | The Discipline of Dress: Uniform Buttons and Accoutrements of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 8064 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Grguric, Nic, Burke, Heather, Wallis, Lynley A., Cole, Noelene, Barker, Bryce and Hatte, Elizabeth |
Journal Title | Historical Archaeology |
Journal Citation | 57 (2), pp. 703-726 |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2023 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0440-9213 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-023-00405-3 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41636-023-00405-3 |
Abstract | Clothing is capable of providing a range of insights into aspects of identity, authority, power, and hierarchy. Here we present the results of an analysis of an assemblage of uniform buttons and accoutrements from seven 19th-century Native Mounted Police (NMP) camps in Queensland, Australia. As part of wider colonial structures of discipline and expropriation, the NMP uniform was a powerful symbol of control: over troopers’ bodies, over NMP detachments by officers, and over “wild” and “savage” Indigenous peoples by the NMP. Exploring the history and development of the NMP uniform, its intent in constructing officers and particularly troopers, the indexical qualities it acquired as a symbol of violence and fear amongst Indigenous people, and some of the alternative ways in which uniforms could be worn provides a variety of insights into the role, nature, and experience of the Queensland NMP. |
Keywords | uniforms; Queensland; Native Mounted Police; buttons |
Contains Sensitive Content | Contains sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 439999. Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | Flinders University |
Griffith University | |
James Cook University | |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
Northern Archaeology Consultancies, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z25x8/the-discipline-of-dress-uniform-buttons-and-accoutrements-of-the-native-mounted-police-in-queensland-australia
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