Connie Kelly Connie Kelly i(A120478 works by)
Born: Established: 1952 Newcastle Waters, Mataranka - Tennant Creek area, Central Northern Territory, Northern Territory, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 How the Cockatoo Got White Feathers Connie Kelly , 1968 single work prose children's Indigenous story dreaming story
— Appears in: Aboriginal Children's Stories 1968; (p. 23-30)

The very old man told his children to stay away from the river on the other side of the waterhole. The eldest son, who wore white paint on his body, disobeyed his father and got lost near the river. A strange bird caught him, and he found his paint turning to feathers and claws growing on his feet. When the old man saw two birds flying above him, he knew his son had been turned into a cockatoo.

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