AustLit logo

AustLit

Durrgin, The Water Rat single work   children's fiction   prose   Indigenous story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Durrgin, The Water Rat
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'In the early days, when a person got too old to hunt or to travel, the other people in the tribe would make a final camp for him and leave him to die. Well, that happened to one old woman. She had grown too old. She couldn't walk around any more, and she couldn't gather food. So the rest of the tribe decided to leave her...'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: English
Last amended 23 Feb 2017 13:17:16
X