The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country' / Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus
- Bib ID:
- 4650153
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beckett, Jeremy, 1931-2022
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- Description:
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- Canberra : ANU E Press, c2009
- x, 93 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921536922
- Series:
- Aboriginal history monograph ; 18.
- Summary:
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The 'Corner Country', where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au/
- Subject:
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- Rainbow serpent
- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
- Adnyamathanha people (L10) (SA SH54-09)
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Wandjiwalgu people (D21) (NSW SH54-12)
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Wangkumara / Wanggumara people (L25) (Qld SG54-15)
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people (D12) (NSW SI54-03)
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Malyangapa / Malyangaba people (L8) (NSW SH54-11)
- Lake Callabonna (NE SA SH54-06)
- Paroo River (SW Qld SF54, SG55, NW NSW SH55)
- Yandama (NW NSW SH54-07)
- Mintiwarda / Peak Hill (NW NSW SH54-07)
- Ularara Waterhole (NW NSW SH55-05)
- Lake Yantara (NW NSW SH54-07)
- Paralana (NE SA SH54-10)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-2018
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2092 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2022
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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