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Roughtail : the dreaming of the roughtail lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja = Tjarany : tjaranykura tjukurrpa ngaanpa kalkinpa wangka tjukurrtjanu / Gracie Greene, Joe Tramacchi, Lucille Gill.
Language: English, Australian languages Publication details: Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 1996.Description: viii, 53 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:- 1875641300 (pbk.)
- Tjarany : tjaranykura tjukurrpa ngaanpa kalkinpa wangka tjukurrtjanu
- Kukatja (Australian people) -- Folklore
- Aborigines, Australian -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Legends
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Folklore
- Kukatja (Australian people) -- Legends
- Legends -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
- Kukatja language -- Texts -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Legends
- Kukatja (Australian people) -- Legends
- Legends -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
- Kukatja language -- Texts -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Legends
- Western Australia (WA)
- juvenile non-fiction
- 398.20899915
- GR366.K84 G74 1996
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Junior collection | GRE | Available | 066477 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes Kukatja word list.
1st published : 1992.
Shortlisted CBC Children's Book of the Year Awards (1993) (Eve Pownall Award for Information Books)
Indexed selectively by ABI, Australian and Torres Strait Islander Bibliographical Index.
Childrens book; stories told are; The Roughtail Lizard Dreaming, The Crow and the Eagle, The Emu and the Turkey , The Black Goanna, The Witchetty Grub Man Dreaming, Kalpartu the Dreamtime Snake, How the Emu Got Short Wings, The Seven Sisters; explains family relationships, includes kinship diagrams; notes on Kukatja language and Kukatja -English wordlist.
Children.
Text in English and Kukatja.
