Olive Python and the Two Boys single work   prose   dreaming story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Olive Python and the Two Boys
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The story of two boys who bathing after their circumcisions in a billabong were attacked by olive python.

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  • Nunggubuyu text with parallel translation in English.
  • Includes comments on text and translations

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Language: Aboriginal Nunggubuyu , English
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    y separately published work icon Nunggubuyu Myths and Ethnographic Texts Jeffrey Heath , Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1980 Z1583635 1980 selected work prose Indigenous story dreaming story

    'These texts were recorded, chiefly at Numbulwar Mission (Northern Territory in the period 1973 to 1977. [The author] as a Research Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies was there working on several languages, but with primary emphasis on Nunggubuyu.' (Source: Introduction)

         Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1980     pg. 17-24
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