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The 'Cannacha's' Death Song over His Chieftain single work   poetry   "Shades of my father, the hour is approaching."
Alternative title: A Death-Song of Tanna
  • Author:agent Henry Kendall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kendall-henry
Issue Details: First known date: 1860... 1860 The 'Cannacha's' Death Song over His Chieftain
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Notes

  • Appeared in the Australian Home Companion in March 1860 with Kendall's lengthy note on the people of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and an explanation of the native words used in the poem.
  • Author's note (Empire): 'Supposed to be sung by a native, over his dying chieftain.'
  • Appeared in the Empire in July 1860 titled 'A Death-Song of Tanna'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Empire 24 July 1860 Z1758826 1860 newspaper issue 1860 pg. 8
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal vol. 5 no. 110 10 March 1860 Z1762538 1860 newspaper issue 1860 pg. 103
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Thomas Thornton Reed (editor), Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 Z571473 1966 selected work poetry This critical edition includes 90 previously uncollected poems and collates manuscripts of the poems and their appearances in periodicals and newspapers during the poet's life-time. There are copious biographical and critical notes, indexes and a bibliography. Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1966 pg. 245-246
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Related Works

A Legend of Tanna i "The wind thro' the forest was mournfully sighing,", Henry Kendall , 1860 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Empire , 12 July 1860; (p. 3) The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall 1966; (p. 255-259)
A Ballad of Tanna The Ballad of Tanna i "She knelt by the dead, in her passionate grief,", Henry Kendall , 1861 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 July 1861; (p. 3) The Illawarra Mercury , 26 July vol. 6 no. 86 1861; (p. 4) The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal , 27 July vol. 6 no. 145 1861; (p. 306) Poems and Songs 1862; (p. 44-45) Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle , 9 November 1862; (p. 2) The Australian Journal , July vol. 4 no. 50 1869; (p. 690)
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Works about this Work

Sense and Nonsense J. J. Healy , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1989; (p. 91-112)
Sense and Nonsense J. J. Healy , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 1989; (p. 91-112)
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