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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Native Cat and the Black-headed Python
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Notes:

This chapter includes three versions of the story;

  1. The storyteller's version in her language transcribed by Lucich, using symbols derived from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Umbagi's direct English translation of the Worora words appears underneath.
  2. Luchich's free translation using English grammatical structure.
  3. Umbagi's English language version of the story as recorded by Lucich.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Children's Stories from the Worora Peter Lucich , Elkin Umbagai , Elkin Umbagai (translator), Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1969 Z844256 1969 selected work prose dreaming story children's

    The anthropologist Peter Lucich conducted fieldwork at Mowanjum Presbyterian Mission in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1963 and 1964. Elkin Umbagai told the children's dreaming stories that Lucich recorded. Each chapter of this book is devoted to a single story which appears in several versions :


      • The storyteller's version in her language transcribed by Lucich, using symbols derived from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Umbagi's direct English translation appears underneath the Worora words.
      • Luchich's free translation using English grammatical structure.
      • Umbagi's English language version of the story if it was recorded by Lucich.

         Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1969     pg. 1-6
Notes:
(As told by David Mowaljarlai).
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Visions of Mowanjum : Aboriginal Writings from the Kimberley Adelaide : Rigby , 1980 Z966015 1980 anthology autobiography biography essay life story prose dreaming story Indigenous story 'The stories collected in this book come from some of the Mowanjum people. Many of them have been handed down for generations in oral form, and have never before been written down. They comprise a fascinating mixture of Dreamtime stories, personal reminiscence, and descriptions of day-to-day living.' Source: Dust jacket. Adelaide : Rigby , 1980 pg. 100-102
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