WEST AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal –

Stories collected from Authors grandparents; connected with named locations; no associated ritual; Goanna, Emu, Possum, Kangaroo, Crow, Magpie, Curlew, Cockatoo, Dog, Willie Wagtail, Robin, Swan, Snake, Parrot, Kookaburra, Pigeon, Dingo, Turtle, Gecko, Owl, Shag (cormorant).

The stories and legends of the Bibulmun tribe of Western Australia form a unique and valuable collection. The legends of this once powerful Aboriginal nation have never before been recorded in written form. In these simple but timeless stories, the author recreates and preserves the myths of a vanished people, skilful hunters and fighters, who inhabited the south-west of Western Australia before the coming of European settlement.

First Edition

• 80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. #230625 (Gift inscription on fep)

• White, K. Bibliography of Australian children’s books, v. 2, no. 876

  First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Stories and motifs – Birds
  • Animals – Birds – Eagles / Hawks / Crows
  • Animals – Mammals – Marsupials – Possums / Gliders / Cuscus
  • Stories and motifs – Turtles
  • Animals – Mammals – Dingoes / Dogs
  • Animals – Birds – Parrots
  • Bibbulman people (W1) (WA SI50-10)
  • South West Western Australia (SW WA SH50, SI50)

  Subject:

  • Australian Aboriginal tales & legends. Western Australia. Anthologies
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Folklore
  • Legends — Western Australia