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'This animation is told in the form of classic Yanyuwa Dreaming narration. The animation details the journey of the Groper (a-Kuridi) around South West Island. It describes the various other Ancestral Dreaming beings that she meets and her responses to them as well as showing acts of creation that are still highly significant today. The animation details the significance of place names, kinship and the role of song lines in story telling and their relationship to country. This animation is an outside, public, telling of a story that is very important to the Yanyuwa Wuyaliya clan.'
Source: Monash Country Lines Archive.
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Dedication:
To the memory of
Don Miller Manarra
Johnson Timothy Babarramila
Musso Harvey Bangkarrinu
Annie Isaac Karrakayn
Land Claim fights (1976, 1992, 2000) for the country of South West Island. They never gave up until it was once again in the hands of their families.
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This story belongs to the Wuyaliya clan of South West Island of the Yanyuwa people, Borroloola, Northern Territory.
