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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Manankurra Kujika (The Song of the Tiger Shark at Manankurra)
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The Tiger Shark sings the cycad trees, the freshwater well, children playing, people gathering water, the river and many other things that can still be found at Manankurra today.

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  • Editorial note: This song line of kujika belongs to the Rrumburriya clan; it is the first section of a song line that was put into the country by the Tiger Shark Dreaming. The Dreamings from the Saltwater Country (Narnu-Yuwa ki Anthaa) is the second section of the Tiger Shark Dreaming song line of kujika.

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First known date: 2008
Language: Aboriginal Yanyuwa AIATSIS ref. (N153) (NT SE53-04)
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With English Subtitles
Link: Access online Sighted: 15/05/2019
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    y separately published work icon Country Lines Archives Monash Country Lines Archive Melbourne : Monash University , 2008- Z1855514 2008 website

    'The Monash Country Lines Archive (MCLA) is a collaborative Monash University project between the Monash Indigenous Centre (MIC), Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Information Technology with a team of Monash researchers, digital animators and post-graduate students from the Monash Indigenous Centre, Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Information Technology.

    The Monash Country Line Archive demands intellectual engagement in regards to issues associated with how best to construct a living archive that is a decolonised space in which communities are happy to see their material stored. It also provides an exciting place for scholars to work and share knowledge'.

    Using the latest 3D animation technology Indigenous stories and languages come to life –records the past, preserves the present, and protects Indigenous languages and knowledge into the future.

    (Source: Monash University website www.infotech.monash.edu.au)

         Melbourne : Monash University , 2008-
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form Narnu-Yuwa ki Anthaa (The Dreamings from the Saltwater Country) John Bradley , Yanyuwa members of the Manankurra Rhumburriya clan , 2010 single work film/TV dreaming story
— Appears in: Country Lines Archives 2008-;

This story is the second part of the Tiger Shark Dreaming song line of kujika. Out on the open sea from the Wearyan River mouth, the Tiger Shark sing dolphins, dugongs, whales and other creatures that live in Yanyuwa country.
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