A rchaeology on the Frontier THIS BLOG IS ABOUT RESEARCH RELATING TO FRONTIER CONFLICT AND ESPECIALLY THE NATIVE MOUNTED POLICE IN QUEENSLAND Murdering Molvo Part II: Beyond History Written by the Victors heatherb1 Aboriginal people, Aboriginal women, Alexander Kennedy, Boulia, Ernest Eglinton, Frontier conflict, Massacres, oral history Alexander Kennedy, Frontier conflict, history, interpretation, oral histories, privilege, Qantas, violence Leave a comment By Iain Davidson (hĴps://archaeologyonthefrontier.com/the-team/iain-davidson/), Heather Burke (hĴps://archaeologyonthefrontier.com/the-team/heather-burke/) and Lynley Wallis (hĴps://archaeologyonthefrontier.com/the-team/lynley-wallis/) I n a previous post (hĴps://archaeologyonthefrontier.com/2020/07/13/murdering-molvo-part-i/) we described a series of events that occurred in western Queensland (Qld) in 1879, involving the killings of four Europeans by Aboriginal people, and the reprisal massacres carried out by the NMP and local seĴlers that followed. The story we told was reconstructed using various wriĴen accounts published in the newspapers of the time, and as later wriĴen reminiscences, as well as detailed oral histories passed down by Yalarrnga people through the Sullivan family (Figure 1). Figure 1 Members of the Sullivan Family at Mt Merlin, 2017 (L to R: Lance Sullivan, Val Punch and