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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 I, the Aboriginal; Moon and Rainbow
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Seal Books , 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
I, the Aboriginal, Douglas Lockwood , single work biography
Moon and Rainbow : The Autobiography of an Aboriginal, Dick Roughsey , single work autobiography

'The author is Lardil man from Mornington Island; comments on conception beliefs, birth, food plants, camp life, Creation myth, myths on origin of death, Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpent, marriage rules, relations with Mission staff, hunting & fishing, stellar myths, dugong hunting, wild bee myth; initiation myth, describes initiation ceremony, subincision, secret Damin language; flood ceremony, 22 lines of rain stopping song (with free translation), story of Warrenby, sorcery and sorcerers, clay as medicine, love magic, moon legend, death & mourning, burial, inquest, spirit beliefs; relations with Bentinck Island (Kaiadilt) people, stories of early settlement of Sweers Island; work on cattle stations & as deckhand, encouragement to work on bark painting' (Source: Online)

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