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Cliff Humphries Cliff Humphries i(A112081 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Noongar / Nyoongar / Nyoongah / Nyungar / Nyungah/Noonygar ; Aboriginal
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1 y separately published work icon Aalidja Maali Yok Birrla-Ngat Kor-Iddny - Swan Woman Returns to Her River : An Ancient Noongar Dreamtime Story from Kellerberrin Donald Smith (illustrator), Cliff Humphries , Noranda : Ngardarrep Kiitj Foundation , 2021 24017401 2021 single work picture book Indigenous story

'This ancient Nongar Dreamtime story is told in the words of Elder Cliff Humphries.

'It tells the tale of Kwergan the Crowman and his two Mali (black swan) wives; what happened to his younger wife when she laughed at her husband, and why his elder wife left Kwergan’s maang-art Jam Gum boodjar in the East and returned to the well-watered lands of the Bibboolmun paperbark in the West. It also tells of Kergan’s rescue by his uncle Waarlitj (eagle), who took him to the salt-lake country near Kellerberrin only to have Kwergan repay his uncle’s kindness with behaviour typical of Crowman.' (Publication summary)
1 Ali Djinang! Yongka Hey Look! Kangaroo Cliff Humphries , 1992 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: Noongar : Our Way 1992; (p. 56)
1 Karda Koombariny Big Race Horse Goanna Cliff Humphries , 1992 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: Noongar : Our Way 1992; (p. 24)
1 y separately published work icon Noongar : Our Way Cliff Humphries , Hazel Winmar , Sandra Wooltorton , Alan Dench (translator), Bunbury : Noongar Language and Culture Centre , 1992 Z1636290 1992 single work non-fiction lyric/song Part 1 : Noongar Tradition (Units 1-9)
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