Popeye Jangala Popeye Jangala i(A113320 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Warlpiri
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 Jarntujarrakurlu : The Two Dogs Popeye Jangala , 1994 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories : Yimikirli : Newly Recorded Sayings from Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia 1994; (p. [119]-127)

'The Warlpiri jukurrpa of the two dogs (jarntujarra or malikijarra) concerns the travels of two black dogs all the way from Yarrajalpa in the extreme west of Warlpiri country to Alekarenge on the eastern edge where they settle. Popeye Jangala, who lives at Yaruman in West Australia, follows the adventures of the dogs as far as Yurlpawarnu. The later part of the story is told by Joe Jangala (q.v.) from Alekarenge in the east ... '

(Source: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, 1994, p. 125)
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