| Description |
143 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The Ocean; 1. The whalers -- 2. Bundoola, the King of the sea -- 3. The man who killed the porpoise -- 4. The flood -- 5. The frog who was a king -- 6. The sacred spring -- 7. The Aboriginal Jesus -- 8. The three brothers -- 9. The fairy emus -- The Mountains: 10. The twin stars -- 11. The song of the vine -- 12. The native bears -- 13. The lovers of the mountain -- 14. The mountain beings -- 15. The battle of the birds -- 16. The myth and the mountain -- 17. Dirrangun at Tooloom -- 18. Dirrangun at Baryulgil -- 19. Dirrangun at Yamba -- The Land and the Law: 20. Gold and grog and pretty stones -- 21. Left-hander Ferguson -- 22. The man who sold his dreaming -- 23. The sacred mountain -- 24. The man who broke the tribal law -- 25. The Bugeen -- 26. Geerdung, the Maker -- 27. Ngaloongirr, the Clever-Fellers -- 28. The native companion -- The Flowering Land: 29. The child who had no father -- 30. Gineevee, the black swan -- 31. The everlasting water -- 32. The surprise attack -- 33. The Rainbow-Snake -- 34. Jarrangulli -- 35. The brown Jacks -- 36. The little people -- 37. The cicadas |
| Summary |
37 stories collected from New South Wales Aborigines, including myths and legends, and tales of times since Europeans arrived in Australia |
| Analysis |
Legends New South Wales |
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Legends New South Wales |
| Notes |
From the Turner collection |
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Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
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Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales
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Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
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Legends -- New South Wales
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Legends -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Legends -- Australia.
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Legends.
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| Author |
Robinson, Roland, 1912-1992
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| LC no. |
65089628 |
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