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Peggy Rockman Napaljarri Peggy Rockman Napaljarri i(A8620 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1940 Mungkururrpa, Central Northern Territory, Northern Territory, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Warlpiri
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1 2 y separately published work icon Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories : Yimikirli : Newly Recorded Sayings from Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia Lee Cataldi (editor), Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (editor), ( trans. Lee Cataldi et. al. )agent)expression San Francisco : HarperCollins (United States) , 1994 Z160108 1994 anthology short story prose Indigenous story dreaming story
1 Wawarljakurlu : The Man from Wawarlja Peggy Rockman Napaljarri , 1994 single work short story dreaming story
— Appears in: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories : Yimikirli : Newly Recorded Sayings from Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia 1994; (p. [149]-159)

'This jukurrpa story of the man Jungarrayi from a place called Wawarlja concerns a man who collected a large number of wives regardless of their kinship affiliations, a practice locally described in English as "marrying people of the wrong skin". For Warlpiri people, for whom the kinship or skin system is pivotal in both social arrangements and in the relationships of people to the land ...'

(Source: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, 1994, p. 157)
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