School Days (from : Moon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal) extract   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 School Days (from : Moon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal)
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    y separately published work icon North of Capricorn : An Anthology of Prose Des Petersen (editor), Stephen Torre (editor), Townsville : Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland , 1989 Z545593 1989 anthology short story extract prose essay Townsville : Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland , 1989 pg. 95-99
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y separately published work icon Moon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal Dick Roughsey , Artarmon : Reed , 1971 Z1436536 1971 single work autobiography

'The author is Lardil man from Mornington Island; comments on conception beliefs, birth, food plants, camp life, Creation myth, myths on origin of death, Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpent, marriage rules, relations with Mission staff, hunting & fishing, stellar myths, dugong hunting, wild bee myth; initiation myth, describes initiation ceremony, subincision, secret Damin language; flood ceremony, 22 lines of rain stopping song (with free translation), story of Warrenby, sorcery and sorcerers, clay as medicine, love magic, moon legend, death & mourning, burial, inquest, spirit beliefs; relations with Bentinck Island (Kaiadilt) people, stories of early settlement of Sweers Island; work on cattle stations & as deckhand, encouragement to work on bark painting' (Source: Online)
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