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Message Stick single work   poetry   "A signed album of all our trips has me leapfrogging"
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Message Stick
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Notes

  • Author's note: Diwurruwurru is Indigenous language (Yanyuwa/Garrawa) in the Gulf region of northern Australia for ‘message stick’.

    Millad is Kriol in the Gulf region of northern Australia for the first person plural pronoun: we, us our.

    Ngabaya is Indigenous language (Yanyuwa/Garrawa) in the Gulf region of northern Australia for ‘ghost’ or ‘spirit’; perhaps originally a Yanyuwa word, this term is now used widely by most Indigenous people of the Gulf.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Tincture Journal no. 12 Summer 2015 9157384 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 162-163
Last amended 17 Dec 2015 11:52:15
Subjects:
  • Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory,
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