Land of the Rainbow Snake : Aboriginal children's stories and songs from western Arnhem Land / arranged and translated by Catherine H. Berndt ; illustrated by Djoki Yunupingu
Moon -- Sun -- Tortoise and echidna -- Crow and black cockatoo -- Fish hawk -- Pheasant and kingfisher -- The wild honey man -- Cicada woman -- Blanket lizard -- Boys turning into fish -- Loglog lizard -- Naman-duldja's adventure -- Wuriyari's adventure -- The Namandi's dog -- The stolen child -- The old man and the namarudu -- Nabin-gulou and namarudu -- The whirlpool -- The young man and the namandi -- The wild dog -- Namim-buma and his dog -- The crocodile they couldn't kill -- The python -- The child and the crocodile -- A wild woman -- The clam shell -- The nyalaidj dancers -- Children's songs
Summary
Boys turn into fish, a wild woman and her giant dog look for people to eat, and other wonders occur in these twenty-seven traditional stories from the aborigines of western Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia
Analysis
Aboriginal Australians - Legends
Aboriginal Australians - Juvenile literature
Mythology, Australian aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal tales & legends. Anthologies. Juvenile literature
Notes
Includes fifteen songs with parallel Gunwinggu text and English translation
Aboriginal content
Audience
children
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
