‘Making friends with lyre-birds’: Alice Manfield and settler belonging in Mount Buffalo National Park
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alice Manfield (1878–1960) was a naturalist, photographer, and mountain guide on Mount Buffalo, in southeastern Australia. She embodied emerging ways of understanding and relating to native flora and fauna, publishing the first known photographs of male lyrebirds and attributing her success to long-term familiarity with these endangered animals and their environment. For credibility and emotional appeal, she also invoked her family's colonial heritage: the Manfields participated in the dispossession of the local Mogullumbidj people and other Indigenous groups for whom Mount Buffalo, or Dordordonga, was sacred. Drawing on her pictorial and literary archive, this article argues that Manfield connected nostalgia for ‘pioneering’ settler colonialism with what were framed as more enlightened, intimate engagements with the threatened environment. In post-Federation Australia, this combination fostered settler territoriality and elided the displacement of Aboriginal people and knowledge. Through her tours and publications, Manfield encouraged deep familiarity with colonised landscapes and strengthened settler affinity with native animals, who were increasingly recruited as affirming indigenes. More broadly, this article is concerned with changing styles of settler-colonial environmental knowledge production and circulation in the early twentieth century, which drew on notions of friendship and benevolent protection while remaining tied to earlier forms of colonial domination.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".