Ancilla Munkara Ancilla Munkara i(A120473 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Tiwi people
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 y separately published work icon Ngirramini Ngini Karri Ngiyarringani Kapani Yimamani Parlingarri Memories of My Father, Louie Munkara Magdalen Kerinaiua , Ancilla Munkara (illustrator), Beatrice Kerinaiua , Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre (translator), Bathurst area : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1986 Z1702377 1986 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Arlijirrakini Ngini Ngarra Pujiki The Thirsty Frog Patricia Beattie , Ancilla Munkara (illustrator), Magdalen Kerinaiua (translator), Nguiu : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1986 9219037 1986 single work picture book children's Indigenous story

The story about the thirsty frog translated in Aboriginal Tiwi language.
2 The Crow and the Sandpiper Kitty Lane , Bobby Lane , Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre (translator), ( trans. Magdalen Kerinaiua with title Wakiwakini Amintiya Kukukulu : A Story from Delissaville Told to Bobby Lane by His Mother Kitty ) Nguiu : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1985 1968 single work prose children's Indigenous story dreaming story
— Appears in: Aboriginal Children's Stories 1968; (p. 9-13)

Crow often went out on a raft to get food for his family, bringing home plenty of bush food - goanna, water-snake, duck, lily roots. Although Crow continually offers to loan the raft to Sandpiper, he hides it in the razor-grass every day. Sandpiper gets annoyed and decides to punish Crow for his deceit, setting fire to Crow's house. Crow was 'burned to black' and remains black today. Sandpiper's legs are 'striped with red' because he was injured by the razor-grass.
1 y separately published work icon Ngirramini Karri Putuwurugi Awarra Awurankini Fort Amintiya Karri Pirripapijingi Tiwi (1824) : The Building of the Fort and Further Contact with Tiwi Tribes (1824) Ancilla Munkara , Ancilla Munkara (illustrator), Bathurst Island : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1984 9445514 1984 single work prose short story children's

A short story on the history of Tiwi.
1 y separately published work icon Ngirramini Ngini Jilarringa Story about the Brolga Dorothy Tipungwuti , Bathurst Island : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1982 Z1721027 1982 single work prose dreaming story
1 y separately published work icon Ngirramini Ngini Awarra Ngatawa Kurumutamini : The Incredible Hulk Valerian Munkara , Ancilla Munkara (illustrator), Bathurst Island : Nguiu Nginingawila Literature Production Centre , 1982 9445631 1982 single work picture book children's
1 Japara and Wuruprenala Susan Marrawakamirr (illustrator), Ancilla Munkara , Gerardine Kerinaiua , 1977 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Kwork Kwork, the Green Frog, and Other Tales from the Spirit Time 1977; (p. 24-25)
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