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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Kurtjar Stories
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'Traditional stories of birds and reptiles and stories after European contact including Wamakee Massacre' (Source: Mura Collection Catalogue, AIATSIS)

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Batchelor, Batchelor - Katherine area, Top End, Northern Territory,:Darwin Institute of Technology , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Barra and the Groper, Melba Casey , single work prose Indigenous story

A story about the conflict between the groper and the barramundi.

 (p. 1)
The Stinking Turtle and the Long-Necked Turtle, Melba Casey , single work prose Indigenous story

A story about Stinking Turtle and Long-necked turtle and their search for water.

 (p. 3)
Stinking Turtle and Long-Necked Turtle, the Goanna and the Lizards, and the Brolga, Plain Turkey, and Emu, Melba Casey , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 6)
The Stinking Turtle and the Long-Necked Turtle, Roley Gilbert , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 16)
The Emu and the Plain Turkey, Roley Gilbert , single work prose Indigenous story

A story about emu and the Plain turkey and their search for water, and the danger they encountered.

 (p. 21)
Death in the Bush, Melba Casey , single work prose Indigenous story

A grandmother and her grand children go fishing, but the Grandmother is taken by a crocodile.

 (p. 27)
Life in The Bush, Roley Gilbert , single work prose Indigenous story

Rolly Gilbert talks about life in the bush.

 (p. 37)
The Massacre at Wamakee, Roley Gilbert , single work prose Indigenous story

Rolly Gilbert gives a graphic account of the massacre of Aboriginal men, women and children at Wamakee.

 (p. 77)
Note: 'Wamakee' is a Kurtjar word for Waterhole. (Source: Koch, Harold and Hercus, Luise Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-Naming the Australian Landscape. ANU ePress, 2015:495).
Death of a Station Manager, Melba Casey , single work prose Indigenous story

Melba Casey tells the story of the suicide of station Manager, Nielson.

 (p. 81)
Normanton in the Wet, Roley Gilbert , single work prose Indigenous story

Rolly Gilbert talks about life during the west season in Normanton.

 (p. 91)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: English , Aboriginal Kurtjar AIATSIS Code: G33 QLD , English
Notes:
Kurtijar text with translation in English.
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