The dreamtime : Australian Aboriginal myths in paintings / by Ainslie Roberts ; with text by Charles P. Mountford
- Bib ID:
- 2125544
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roberts, Ainslie, 1911-1993
- Edition:
- [Rev. ed.]
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Rigby, 1970, ©1965
- 79 pages : coloured illustrations ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0851790259
- Summary:
-
First published 1965, which see for annotation; Revised in full colour, 1970.
- Full contents:
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- Boora the pelican
- The first kangaroo
- The sun-woman and the moon-man
- The wedge-tailed eagle, the white cockatoo, and the blanket lizard
- Yirbaik-baik and her dogs
- The origin of fire
- Goolagaya and the white dingo
- The death of Jinini
- The men of the Milky Way
- Koobor the drought-maker
- The banishment of the cuckoos
- Tiddalik the flood-maker
- The storms of the willy-wagtail
- Purupriki and the flying foxes
- Tirlta and the flowers of blood
- Bima the curlew
- The numbakulla and the first aborigines
- The frogs and the sound of wind
- Mangowa and the round lakes
- Inua's ladder
- The seven emu sisters
- The lightning-man Wala-undayua
- The Woma snake-man
- Wuluwait the boatman of the dead
- Mirram and Wareen the hunters
- The creation of the eagle and the crow
- The frog-woman, quork-quork, and her family
- The mopaditis and the black cockatoos
- The transformation of Parabruma
- Ulamina and the stolen canoe
- The native cat, the owl, and the eagle
- The bailer shells, the dolphins, and the tiger-shark.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Stories and motifs - Animals
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Stories and motifs
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16)
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976
- Copyright:
-
Copyright Undetermined
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Unable to determine date of publication or creation
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1993
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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