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'The narrative relates to the deaths of two Ancestral sisters, both pregnant, who accidentally consumed highly toxic cycad berries and drank salty water. As a result they died very nasty deaths involving dysentery and vomiting.'
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'Dreamings' and Dreaming Narratives : What's the Relationship?
2014
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 February 2014;'... To imagine what “Australia” was like B.C. (“Before Cook”, or before colonisation), one needs to envision the entire landmass of this island/continent and most of its surrounding islands and waters as crisscrossed by “Dreamings” (in popular parlance sometimes referred to as “Songlines”). ...'
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'Dreamings' and Dreaming Narratives : What's the Relationship?
2014
single work
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 6 February 2014;'... To imagine what “Australia” was like B.C. (“Before Cook”, or before colonisation), one needs to envision the entire landmass of this island/continent and most of its surrounding islands and waters as crisscrossed by “Dreamings” (in popular parlance sometimes referred to as “Songlines”). ...'
