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Author Pootchemunka, Eva, 1933-2006

Title Crocodile story / told by Eva Pootchemunka (Wikmunea) & Pat Pootchemunka ; translated from Wik-Mungkan by Koppa Yunkaporta ; illustrated by Garry Namponan
Published [Thuringowa, Qld.] : Black Ink Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 volume : color illustrations, portraits ; 15 cm
Summary "On 3 August 1953 Samuel Pootchemunka of Aurukun, a hunter aged 60 years, was awarded The Royal Humane Society of Australasias Silver Medal for the courage and humanity he displayed in rescuing Eva aged twenty and her baby Beulah aged ten months, from the crocodile. this is an illustrated account of that event. A version of this story is published in Aurukun Oral History and held in the AIATSIS audio-visual archives."--Provided by publisher
Analysis All Australian Indigenous Material
Australian fiction (Australia)
Notes "On 3 August 1953 Samuel Pootchemunka of Aurukun, a hunter aged 60 years, was awarded The Royal Humane Society of Australasia's Silver Medal for the courage and humanity he displayed in rescuing Eva aged twenty and her baby Beulah aged ten months, from the crocodile. This is an illustrated account of that event. A version of this story is published in Aurukun Oral History and held in the AIATSIS audio-visual archives."--Provided by publisher
Translator: Koppa Yunkaporta
Audience Primary students
Subject Pootchemunka, Samuel, -1967
Pootchemunka, Samuel
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Aurukun Region (Qld.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Aurukun Region
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Aurukun Region -- Juvenile fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Aurukun Region -- Juvenile literature
Crocodile attacks -- Australia -- Archer River (Qld.)
Crocodile attacks -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River -- Juvenile fiction
Crocodile attacks -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River
Crocodile attacks -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River -- Juvenile literature
Crocodiles -- Australia -- Archer River (Qld.)
Archer River (Qld.)
Crocodiles -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River
Crocodiles -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River -- Juvenile fiction
Crocodiles -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River -- Juvenile literature
Rescues -- Australia -- Queensland -- Archer River
SUBJECT Archer River (Qld.)
Aurukun Region (Qld.)
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Namponan, Garry, 1960-
Pootchemunka, Pat, 1938-
Yunkaporta, Koppa, 1919-1992
ISBN 9781863340267 (paperback)