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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 The Witchetty Grub Man Dreaming
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'A long time ago, there were two Snake men who were people in the Dreamtime ...'

Notes

  • Author's note: This story starts around Lake Gregory. Walmajarri people used to live there. My grandfather's Dreaming comes from this story.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: English , Aboriginal Kukatja
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja Tjarany : Tjaranykura Tjukurrpa Ngaanpa Kalkinpa Wangka Tjukurrtjanu; Tjarany : Roughtail Gracie Greene , Joe Tramacchi , Lucille Gill , Lucille Gill (illustrator), Broome : Magabala Books , 1990 Z843149 1990 selected work children's fiction children's Indigenous story

    'Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia’s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kukatja, the book includes magnificent paintings, maps, kinship diagrams, exercises and language notes. Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Award.'

         Tjarany Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja Tjarany : Tjaranykura Tjukurrpa Ngaanpa Kalkinpa Wangka Tjukurrtjanu     Broome : Magabala Books , 1990     pg. 20-25
    Note: In Kukatja language text with parallel translation in English.
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Subjects:
  • Lake Gregory, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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