Gender:
Male
Heritage:
Aboriginal
;
Aboriginal Yolngu
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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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y
Land of the Rainbow Snake : Aboriginal Children's Stories and Songs from Western Arnhem Land
( trans. Catherine H. Berndt
)expression
Sydney
:
Collins
,
1979
Z848592
1979
selected work
prose
lyric/song
dreaming story
children's
Boys turn into fish, a wild woman and her giant dog look for people to eat, and other wonders occur in these twenty-seven traditional stories from the Aboriginal people of western Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
- 1980 special commendation New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
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