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Author McInnes, Dianne, author.

Title Mother & son : Western Province / retold by Dianne McInnes ; illustrations, Kua Simbai.
Published Coorparoo, Qld. : Robert Brown & Associates, [1995]
©1995

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Description 16 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm
Series Legends of Papua New Guinea.
Summary A story passed down through generations about Kuubil, a female wallaby, and her son, Keam, who lived in Mori in the Western Province. The story is about their search for, and hunting of, food, including using bows and arrows. They eventually kill a python, which was the swamp monster,and eat it - this being how the people of the Western Province began to eat snake.
Notes Cover title.
"Long time Bipo stori"--Cover.
Subject Folklore -- Papua New Guinea.
Author Simbai, Kua, illustrator.
ISBN 186273092X
Other Titles Mother and son