The sausage tree / Rosalie Medcraft & Valda Gee
- Bib ID:
- 2232159
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Medcraft, Rosalie, 1933-
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1995
- xiv, 107 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702227838 (paperback)
- Series:
- UQP black Australian writers.
- Summary:
-
Childhood memories of sisters Rosalie Medcraft (nee Johnson) and Valda Gee (nee Johnson); growing up in Lilydale (Tasmania) during depression years; Johnson family are descendants of Manalargenna; introduction describes family history and the ability to acknowledge their Aboriginal heritage which came after their fathers death in 1985; winner of the 1995 David Unaipon Award.
- Notes:
- "1994 Winner of the David Unaipon Award" -- Back cover.
- Subject:
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- Johnson family
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Biography
- Economics - Cycles
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Children - Childhood
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Tasmania -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Prime Seal Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Cape Portland (NE Tas SK55-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gee, Valda, 1930-
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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