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Averil Dean Averil Dean i(A111586 works by) (birth name: Averil Lily Williams) (a.k.a. Lily Averil Dean)
Born: Established: 1939 Gnowangerup, Gnowangerup area, Wagin - Katanning area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Noongar / Nyoongar / Nyoongah / Nyungar / Nyungah/Noonygar ; Aboriginal
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 y separately published work icon Kaawar Leonard (Jack) Williams , Averil Dean , Batchelor : Batchelor Press , 2012 Z1911930 2012 single work children's fiction children's 'Kaawar is the story of how the red-capped parrots were scared by the waalitj (eagle) and as they scattered they scraped their legs across a hill in the Stirling Ranges in WA. The marks left by the Kaawar can still be seen, along with the pathways they created through the hills. The Noongar people always used these pathways created by the kaawar as they fled from the waalitj.' (Source: Batchelor Press)
1 1 y separately published work icon Boola Miyel : The Place of Many Faces Leonard (Jack) Williams , Averil Dean , Batchelor : Batchelor Press , 2007 Z1582055 2007 single work picture book children's dreaming story 'Boola Miyel is where Noyitj, spirit of the dead, lives. In the story of this place, a young girl breaks the law and is banished from her tribe, she is all alone until she is taken in by the spirit Noyitj.' Source: Publisher's blurb
1 Averil Dean Averil Dean , 2000 single work life story
— Appears in: Ngulak Ngarnk Nidja Boodja : Our Mother, This Land 2000; (p. 34-37)
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