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Inma nyi:nyi : recordings, song texts, explanations and illustrations / introduction by Catherine Ellis.

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Title Inma nyi:nyi : recordings, song texts, explanations and illustrations / introduction by Catherine Ellis.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Adelaide [South Australia] Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music, The University of Adelaide, 1982.
Description 39 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Note "As presented at Indulkana, Easter, 1975, and translated, annotated and illustrated by the visiting lecturers from Indulkana throughout 1975-1976"
Recording sung in the Pitantjatjara dialect.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary A song taught to young children. Describes many events during the travels of a large group of birds at the beginning of time. These nyi:nyi:, having interchangeable human and bird characteristics, set out from Kultuwa (a place known only to Aboriginal people) in the northwest corner of South Australia and travel in a large circle, ultimately arriving back at Kultuwa. The booklet presents the song text itself with the nearest English equivilent underneath, next the literal English translation and finally the explanation of events surrounding that verse.
Subjects Songs, Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Indulkana -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Music
Pitjantjatjara (Australian people) -- Music
Indulkana Aboriginal Reserve (S. Aust.) -- Songs and music
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Ellis, Catherine J. (Catherine Joan), 1935-1996, (writer of introduction.)
Other Corporate Bodies University of Adelaide. Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music
Call number PAM 2018.009
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A00882220 PAM 2018.009
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