form y separately published work icon Nhinhinhi, the Giant Groper single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of How the Giant Nhinhinhi Fish Changed the Languages John B. Haviland (translator), 1979 single work children's fiction prose
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Nhinhinhi, the Giant Groper
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'Long ago all men had a single language, which everyone could understand. One time word went out to all the different tribes of people that there would be a big dance. People came together from the East, from the West, from the North and from the South...'

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Language: Aboriginal Guugu Yimidhirr AIATSIS ref. (Y82) (Qld SD55-13) , English
Notes:
with English subtitles.
Link: Web Resource Sighted: 28/04/2015
      Hope Vale, Port Douglas - Cooktown area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland,: 2009 .
      Note/s:
      • Told and illustrated by Tulo Gordon, 1977.
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