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y separately published work icon The Lost Emu single work   picture book   children's   Indigenous story  
Alternative title: Yalibirri Luujumayinha
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Lost Emu
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Notes

  • Wajarri(Watjari)story and the English translation are published on facing pages.

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Language: Aboriginal Wajarri , English
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Yalibirri Luujumayinha : The Lost Emu Ross Boddington , 2007 single work extract
— Appears in: Our Languages Are the Voice of the Land : The FATSIL Newsletter , November vol. 35 no. 2007; 'The emu used to drink at this pool. And even in the dark, kangaroos and people used to drink there too.There used to be about five or six Aboriginal people come there with spears and boomerangs, and hitting sticks, whatever they can get. One day, while the emu was drinking water they decided they wanted to get a emu.'
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  • Murchison, Eneabba - Morawa - Mullewa area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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