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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Sea Devil
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  • This chapter does not include Umbagi's English language version of the story as recorded by Lucich.

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    y separately published work icon Children's Stories from the Worora Peter Lucich , Elkin Umbagai , Elkin Umbagai (translator), Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1969 Z844256 1969 selected work prose dreaming story children's

    The anthropologist Peter Lucich conducted fieldwork at Mowanjum Presbyterian Mission in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1963 and 1964. Elkin Umbagai told the children's dreaming stories that Lucich recorded. Each chapter of this book is devoted to a single story which appears in several versions :


      • The storyteller's version in her language transcribed by Lucich, using symbols derived from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Umbagi's direct English translation appears underneath the Worora words.
      • Luchich's free translation using English grammatical structure.
      • Umbagi's English language version of the story if it was recorded by Lucich.

         Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1969     pg. 13-16
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