y separately published work icon Gurangatch and Mirragan single work   short story   Indigenous story  
Note: Retold by Alex Barlow
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Gurangatch and Mirragan
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'Gurangatch and Mirragan is a story from the Gandangarra tribe who live by the Wollondilly River in New South Wales. This story tells of how Gurangatch made the rivers and valleys of the southern highlands of New South Wales.' (Back cover)

Notes

  • 'Adapted from R.H. Mathews Some mythology of the Gandangarra Tribe, New South Wales, in Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie vol. 40, 1908'.
  • 'The story of how their country was made was once told to a researcher, R. H. Mathews, by some Gandangarra people who still lived by the Wollondilly River at Burragorang. This is their story'.

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Last amended 18 Dec 2015 10:50:48
Subjects:
  • Wombeyan Caves, Towrang - Taralga - Wombeyan Caves area, Goulburn area, Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • Wollondilly, Mittagong - Bowral area, Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • Jenolan Caves, Lithgow area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
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