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Author Idriess, Ion L. (Ion Llewellyn), 1890-1979.

Title The Red Chief : as told by the last of his tribe / by Ion Idriess
Published Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1953
©1953

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  827.02 I214 A6/R  AVAILABLE
Description xxiv, 226 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Summary Popularized story of the activities and campaigns of Red Kangaroo (Cumbo Gunnerah) who was a Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) warrior chief and flourished in the Coonabarabran / Gunnedah area c.1745, as told by Bungaree of the Gunnedah, N.S.W. district; based on notes by J.P. and Stan Ewing; exhumation of his skeleton c.1887
Notes Novels in English. Australian writers, 1890-1945. Special subject: New South Wales. Gunnedah region. Aboriginal tales and legends
Subject Bungaree, -1830.
Gunnerah, Cumbo, approximately 1680-approximately 1745
Red Kangaroo (Australian Chief)
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Gunnedah Region (N.S.W.) -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Legends.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Religion.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Gunnedah Region -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Gunnedah Region -- Legends
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Gunnedah Region
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Gunnedah region -- Biography
Kamilaroi (Australian people)
SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579
Genre/Form Fiction.
Biographies.