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Shawn Dobson Shawn Dobson i(A74224 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Arrernte
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1 y separately published work icon Bush Foods : Arrernte Foods of Central Australia Nhenhe-areye Anwerne-arle Arlkweme Margaret Kemarre Turner , Shawn Dobson , John Henderson , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1996 Z1587232 1996 single work single work life story information book

Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM, a respected Arrernte woman shares the intimate knowledge of the country showing how Aboriginal people obtain food from an arid environment.

Source: http://shopping.iad.edu.au/store/viewItem.shop?idProduct=66 (Sighted 11/05/2009)
1 y separately published work icon Apmwe-kenhe Arne The Snake's Tree Margaret Heffernan , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1993 Z1776603 1993 single work children's fiction children's Indigenous story
2 y separately published work icon A Town Like Mparntwe : A Guide to the Dreaming Tracks and Sites of Alice Springs The Arrernte Landscape: Guide to Dreaming Tracks and Sites of Alice Springs; Jukurrpa Pocket Book of a Town like Mparntwe David Brooks , Shawn Dobson (illustrator), Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1991 8036722 1991 single work

'Built on the land the Arrernte people call Mparntwe, Alice Springs is the place where caterpillar beings originated and where mountain ranges were formed by wild-dog fights. A town like Mparntwe takes you on a journey through Alice Springs that shows you how an Arrernte person sees the country. This new edition of the book originally called The Arrernte Landscape tells the stories of Altyerre, ‘the Dreamtime’, and describes the travels of the ancestral beings as they made the world. A map, illustrations and skyline drawings show you the ancestors’ Dreaming tracks and the sites they created in the Alice Springs area.' (Source: Publisher's Blurb)
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