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The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country' / Jeremy Beckett and Luise Hercus.
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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
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Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-
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Aboriginal history monograph
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305.89915 AHM no. 18
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