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The Legend of the First Coming of the Kangaroo single work   short story   Indigenous story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 The Legend of the First Coming of the Kangaroo
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The first kangaroo was borne to Australia by the greatest wind ever known, set by the Great Spirit to provide food, skins and fur in a time of great scarcity.

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    y separately published work icon The Legend of the Coming of the First Kangaroo Lindsay A. Dane , Barron Field , Caulfield : Truesdell Press , 1948 Z1479288 1948 selected work poetry short story Indigenous story This small book contains Barron Field's The Kangaroo and a retelling by Lindsay Dane of a legend of the coming of the kangaroo attributed to the 'first Autochthonous inhabitants of Australia, particularly those of the South Eastern tribes' of the McDonnell ranges area. Printed to commemmorate Australia Day 1948. Caulfield : Truesdell Press , 1948
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  • Kiama area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
  • Southern Highlands - Southern Tablelands, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
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