Lindsay Roughsey Lindsay Roughsey i(8838259 works by) (a.k.a. Burrurr )
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Lardil
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 y separately published work icon Seagull and Crane : A Traditional Lardil Story Cassy Nancarrow , Cassy Nancarrow (editor), Mornington Island State School (illustrator), Cyril Moon , Ellen Roughsey , Lindsay Roughsey , Gununa : Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation , 2014 8838089 2014 single work picture book children's

'Seagull woman looks after her babies all by herself while her husband Crane goes off hunting. When he comes back demanding his wife's attention, she leaves with the children, creating channels between the islands. '
1 y separately published work icon Lardil Language Elicitation, Biography and Songs Ngakulmungan Kangka Leman , Anna Ash , Norvin Richards , Jane Helen Simpson , Ken Hale , Kenneth Jacobs , Lindsay Roughsey , Andrew Marmies , Ida Brookdale , Ken Hale , Cyril Moon , Elsie Roughsey , Gladys Goodman , Mornington Island : 1996 (Manuscript version)9302034 9301898 1996 collection biography lyric/song

'Lardil lexical material; kinship terms; cardinal directions; stories including Moon and Squid and Rat; hymns; moon songs; biography and plant vocabulary' (AIATSIS Mura Collections Catalogue)
1 y separately published work icon Lardil Songs and Stories, Qld Percy Trezise , Jacko Jacobs , Kelly Bunbujee , Lindsay Roughsey , Dick Roughsey , 1966 9320223 1966 single work anthology lyric/song

'Damin vocabulary; initiation songs; Gidegal the Moon and Yilli-Jill-Yineah the Spirit Land stories' (Source: Mura Collections Catalogue (AIATSIS))
1 y separately published work icon Lardil and Kaiadilt Songs, Biographical Narratives, Mythology, Material Culture; Kaantju, Olkolo, Koko-Yalandji and Lama-Lama Songs, Mythology, Autobiographical Material Percy Trezise , Jacko Jacobs , Roscoe Toby , Nungarima , Dick Roughsey , Lindsay Roughsey , Dougal , Henry Peters , George Pekos , Willy Long , Mitchell McGreen , Mornington Island Sydney Island Laura Coen Cairns Boulia Cooktown : 1965-1968 9320760 1965 anthology single work lyric/song autobiography oral history

'Damin language discussed; men's and women's love songs and other songs; initiation songs; string manufacture and use; biographical narratives; weapons and toys; sorcery practices; Bora discussion; site recording; island dance practice; Lardil glosses of sign language; oral history; flood and rain making; tooth evulsion and septum piercing; word lists; didjeridu demonstration.' (Source: Mura Collections Catalogue (AIATSIS))
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