Jane Roughsey Jane Roughsey i(A127230 works by)
Born: Established: Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Lardil
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 The Honey Bees and the Stingray Jane Roughsey (illustrator), Alisa Webber , 1993 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Listen To Our Stories : An Anthology of Writing by Aboriginal and Islander Women 1993; (p. 39)

'Long ago, way back in the Dreamtime, animals were like us. One day these honey bees on Mornington Island sand to one another ...'
1 The Season Fish Jane Roughsey , Jane Roughsey (illustrator), 1993 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Listen To Our Stories : An Anthology of Writing by Aboriginal and Islander Women 1993; (p. 33)

'The story I'm going to tell is about the season fish, Dulngu in our Lardil language. ...'
1 The Story of the Two Boys Jane Roughsey , 1993 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Listen To Our Stories : An Anthology of Writing by Aboriginal and Islander Women 1993; (p. 32)

'We have the Law of cooking sea food and the Law of cooking land food and the Law of cooking sea food and land food together. ...'
1 y separately published work icon The Story of the Season Fish Season Fish Jane Roughsey , Darwin : Nungalinyah College , 1989 9429132 1989 single work prose dreaming story
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