y separately published work icon Red Tit and Brown Tit single work   short story   Indigenous story  
Note: Retold by Alex Barlow
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Red Tit and Brown Tit
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'A story from the Pitta-Pitta people who own the land around Boulia, a town in Far Western Queensland. It tells of how red tit came to have a red head and breast and brown tit a flattened head and beak.' (Back cover)

Notes

  • 'An expanded version of the Pitta-Pitta story originally recorded by W.E. Roth in the first volume of his The Queensland Aborigines published in 1897'.

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