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Mungurru, the Scrub Python, and the Endeavour River single work   children's fiction   prose   Indigenous story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Mungurru, the Scrub Python, and the Endeavour River
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'There was a blackbird, called Dyirimadhi, who wanted to marry the daughter of old Mungurru, the Scrub Python. But that old Mungurru wouldn't give his daughter to Blackbird....'

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Diimuur: Carpet Snake, the Forest Spirit, and His Ten Beautiful Daughters John B. Haviland , Tulo Gordon (illustrator), Tulo Gordon , John B. Haviland (translator), Hope Vale : 2009 8507714 2009 single work film/TV 'There was a blackbird, called Dyirimadhi, who wanted to marry the daughter of old Mungurru, the Scrub Python. But that old Mungurru wouldn't give his daughter to Blackbird...'

Notes

  • In English language

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Last amended 28 Apr 2015 11:00:24
Subjects:
  • Endeavour River, Port Douglas - Cooktown area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland,
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