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'The Wik-Munkan people in north Queensland tell this story to explain how one of their creation ancestors, Min Tatya, the goanna, showed them how to make a bark canoe from the bark of the messmate tree. This is a kind of eucalypt'.
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yRainbow Serpent, Moon and FireAlex Barlow,
Melbourne - Inner South:Macmillan,1994Z16208761994anthology short story dreaming story Melbourne - Inner South:Macmillan,1994