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Jack Bell Jack Bell i(A116511 works by)
Born: Established: 1950 Aurukun, Aurukun - Bamaga area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 y separately published work icon The Old Man and the Storm Dorothy Pootchemunka , Thuringowa : Black Ink Press , 2012 14986923 2012 single work children's fiction children's

'With pictures by Jack Bell, and the story told in traditional style by Dorothy Pootchemunka, this is a first-hand recollection of a dramatic event that happened on a remote beach in Cape York some years ago.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 5 y separately published work icon Fantome Island Kathy Gibson , Thuringowa : Black Ink Press , 2010 Z1760027 2010 single work life story 'Kathy Gibson and Jack Bell were residents of Palm Island at the time and have brought together the memories of the neighbouring island, Fantome. A mix of artist's impressions and historical black and white photographs honour the memory of Indigenous Australians who lived out their lives as lepers on Fantome Island'. (Source: Black Ink Press website)
1 3 y separately published work icon Moon Story Jack Bell , Minoota Pootchemunka , Mary Walmberg , Alice Kowearpta , Thuringowa : Black Ink Press , 2007 Z1511543 2007 single work life story "... They were thinking it was a barramundi or something. They were really glad, they all jumped into the lagoon, all the girls, to grab that fish ... But he was waiting for those two particular girls to swim so he could grab them ... They were all watching as the Moon took those two girls up, up, up, up, up, till they got to the cloud, up all the way, watching till they disappeared."

This traditional story is from the Pootchemunka family whose land includes Ti-Tree Lagoon south of Aurukun. The story is one of Indigenous Australia's wealth of moon stories. It was told in Wik-Mungkan and English by the old women who own the story, sitting beside the lagoon at their Outstation in the nineteen-seventies.
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