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Elsie Roughsey Elsie Roughsey i(A686 works by) (a.k.a. Labumore Roughsey; Labamu Roughsey; Labumore Elsie Roughsey)
Also writes as: Labumore
Born: Established: 1923 Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 2000 Queensland,
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Lardil ; Aboriginal
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1 From : An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New Elsie Roughsey , 2002 extract autobiography (An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New)
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 97-98)
1 Gununa Is the Land of My Dreams That's Rich in Culture with Its Background Elsie Roughsey , Paul Memmott , Chris Watson , 1998 extract autobiography (An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New)
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 24 no. 2 1998; (p. 159-172) Hibiscus and Ti-Tree : Women in Queensland 2009; (p. 19-29)

Extracts from An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New with prefatory remarks by Chris Watson and Paul Memmott.
1 y separately published work icon Lardil Language Elicitation, Biography and Songs Ngakulmungan Kangka Leman , Anna Ash , Norvin Richards , Jane Helen Simpson , Ken Hale , Kenneth Jacobs , Lindsay Roughsey , Andrew Marmies , Ida Brookdale , Ken Hale , Cyril Moon , Elsie Roughsey , Gladys Goodman , Mornington Island : 1996 (Manuscript version)9302034 9301898 1996 collection biography lyric/song

'Lardil lexical material; kinship terms; cardinal directions; stories including Moon and Squid and Rat; hymns; moon songs; biography and plant vocabulary' (AIATSIS Mura Collections Catalogue)
1 Childhood Days Elsie Roughsey , 1992 extract autobiography (An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New)
— Appears in: Country Childhoods 1992; (p. 132-150)
1 Childhood Days Elsie Roughsey , 1984 extract autobiography (An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New)
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , vol. 2 no. 6 1984; (p. 12-17)
1 12 y separately published work icon An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New Elsie Roughsey , Paul Memmott (editor), Robyn Horsman (editor), Fitzroy : McPhee Gribble , 1984 Z460591 1984 single work autobiography

'Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raided in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marriage, childbirth, medicine, education, crime and punishment across both worlds.'

'This is a book of great charm - and a rare and significant portrait of an Aboriginal life during a period of acute and often traumatic change.' (Source: Back cover)
1 y separately published work icon The Turkey and the Emu Elsie Roughsey , Ted Egan , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1978 Z830254 1978 single work prose children's dreaming story
1 y separately published work icon Paul Memmott Collection Papers Relating to an Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New by Elsie Roughsey Paul Memmott , Elsie Roughsey , 1970 (Manuscript version)x402194 Z1845030 1970 single work collection

Manuscript of Labumore (Elsie Roughsey), 'An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New'. These boxes include the original handwritten and typed manuscripts, edited drafts, deletions from edited version, final typescript of the book, and the editorial folder.
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