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Title Yanyuwa country : the Yanyuwa people of Borroloola tell the history of their land / translated and illustrated by John Bradley
Published Richmond, Vic. : Greenhouse, 1988
Richmond, Vic. : Greenhouse, 1988
©1988

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Description xvi, 80 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Summary The Dreamings associated with Yanyuwa people in parallel Yanyuwa/English texts; Shark Dreaming bringing cycads to Manankurra, and cycads as food; stories and ceremonial sites from area taken over by Manangoora Pastoral Lease; migrations to islands in Sir Edward Pellew Island group where cave paintings and ancestors buried; social groupings; pronunciation guide; effects of European settlement
Analysis Yanyuwa (Australian People) - History
Borroloola Region (N.T.) - History
Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Borroloola Region
Australian
Notes Text in English and Yanyuwa
Illustrations on lining papers
© Yanyuwa people of Borroloola and John Bradley 1988
Subject Aborigines, Australian -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola Region
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Borroloola Region (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Borroloola Region (N.T.) -- Culture
Yanyuwa (Australian people) -- Religion
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola Region -- Civilization
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola Region
Yanyuwa (Australian people)
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola Region -- Culture
Yanyuwa (Australian people) -- History
Aboriginal Australians.
Art - Rock art - Painting.
Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology.
Food - Sociocultural aspects.
Gathering.
Land rights - Excisions and leases - Pastoral leases.
Language - Linguistics - Language classification.
Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies.
Language - Linguistics - Phonology - Pronunciation.
Plants - Cycads.
Stories and motifs - Sharks.
Sites - Ceremonial grounds.
Sites - Dreaming tracks.
Language - Texts and translations - Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal language.
Yanyuwa / Yanuwa people (N153) (NT SE53-04)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
Yanyuwa language N153.
SUBJECT Borroloola Region (N.T.) -- History
Subject Arnhem Land (NT)
Borroloola (North NT SE53-03)
Manangoora (North NT SE53-04)
Sir Edward Pellew Islands (NT Gulf Islands SD53-16)
Genre/Form History.
Author Bradley, John, 1959-, translator, illustrator.
LC no. 86436152
ISBN 0864361521 :