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Jack Butler Jack Butler i(A125362 works by)
Born: Established: May 1901 Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 27 Apr 1986
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 y separately published work icon Short Stories in Banyjima Alan Dench (interviewer), Jack Butler , Percy Tucker , Herbert Parker , Port Hedland : Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre , 1990 Z1674526 1990 selected work short story Indigenous story
1 The Earthquake and Halley's Comet : Two Jiwarli Texts Peter Austin , Jack Butler , 1986 single work oral history
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 10 no. 2 1986; (p. 79-88)

In May 1985 Peter Austin recorded two oral histories of Jack Butler in the Jiwarli language. The transcription and translation of these Jiwarli texts are Butler's eyewitness accounts of two natural occurrence events that took place when he was a child. The first event he described was an earthquake that occurred in 1906, the other event he eyewitnessed was the appearance of Halley's comet in 1910.
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