This is an academic linguistic text which contains numerous traditional Aboriginal stories.
The Kattang section contains text and translations of nineteen stories about hunting, fishing, and ghosts. This work includes :
a story about a Coopalourripa initiation site;
eight lines of a Kattang corroboree song;
eight lines of the corroboree song 'Two Up Song' (idenitifed as being from Shepparton by Reay - and that includes four Bandjalang words);
fourteen lines of Bandjalang dialect.
Thangatti texts include:
conversations;
eleven stories including Dreamtime stories about snakes, humans, and ghosts;
five lines of a corroboree song;
the Story of Kempsey Fig Tree in English.
This work also includes notes on the structure of morphology, syntax and metasyntax of Kattang and Thangatti languages.
