- Bib ID:
- 3048121
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jenkin, Graham, 1938-
- Description:
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- Kurralta Park, S. Aust. : J.B. Books, 2003
- 96 p. : col. ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1876622466
- Summary:
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Story of Lake Eyre filling with water and two children who set out on a 700km trek to acquire a meralte (boat) for their people; making and trading items such as hairstring and thermoplastic for permission to cross land of neighbouring groups on their way to the ocean (p.18); encounters with the Ngarrindjeri 'animal' people who wore possum skin cloaks (p. 46), having blonde hair (p.50), boat making from tree bark (p.52), learning the customs of another culture (p.57), use of toas (p.64); boat racing (p.70); drying of the lake (p. 86)
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Meralte the boat
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2003
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