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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Mopoke
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Gnoornding sleeps during the day instead of at night, so misses most of the tribal ceremonies. The council elders decide that he should take the form of the Mopoke, which means 'tiredness' in the language of the Bibulmun people.

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    y separately published work icon Aboriginal Legends From the Bibulmun Tribe Eddie Bennell , Adelaide : Rigby , 1981 Z841093 1981 selected work prose dreaming story Indigenous story children's A collection of stories and legends from the Bibulmun people in south-west Western Australia. Statement on dust-jacket claims that this is the first written recording of the legends of the Bibulmun nation. Adelaide : Rigby , 1981 pg. 73-76
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