Why Brolga has only two chicks / retold by Alex Barlow ; illustrated by Heather Walker
- Bib ID:
- 1133203
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barlow, Alex
- Description:
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- South Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan Company of Australia, 1991
- 32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732904048
- Series:
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- Australian legends.
- Southern Cross. 3. Satellite.
- Summary:
-
Text of a Wik-munkan Dreaming Story from Cape York Peninsula, Northern Queensland; tells people not to be jealous; explains the dance of the brolga.
- Notes:
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- An adaptation of a story originally recorded by Ursula McConnel in Myths of the Munkan.
- For children.
- Subject:
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- Readers (Primary)
- Readers -- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Folklore
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnozoology -- Queensland -- Juvenile literature
- Zoology -- Australia -- Folklore
- Wik Mungkan people (Y57) (Qld SD54-07)
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Animals - Birds - Brolgas
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Walker, Heather, 1942-
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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