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The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country' / Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus.

The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country' / Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus.
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ISBN 9781921536922 (pbk.)
Author Beckett, Jeremy
Title The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country' / Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2009.
Description 93 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Series Aboriginal history monograph series 18
Note Transcription of Aboriginal vocabulary: p. 91-93.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references: p. 85-89.
Contents 1. Introduction: 1.1. Mura stories as cultural links -- 1.2. General ceremonies gradually replacing the mura -- 1.3. Survival of the mura stories -- 1.4. The storytellers and their country -- 1.5. The Ngatyi in the mythology of the Corner Country -- 2. The two rainbow serpents: original texts: 2.1. George Dutton's version -- 2.2. Alf Barlow's version -- 2.3. Walter Newton's version -- 2.4. Comment / Hannah Quayle -- 2.5. Comments / Cecil Ebsworth -- 3. Geographical names in the Two Ngatyi stories: 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Discussion of the placenames -- 3.3. Territorial conclusions from the study of the placenames -- 4. References -- 5. Appendix: Transcription of Aboriginal vocabulary.
Summary The 'Corner Country', where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language.
Subjects Rainbow serpent
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-
Series Aboriginal history monograph 18.
Call number 305.89915 AHM no. 18
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