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Title From digging sticks to writing sticks : stories of Kija women as told to Veronica Ryan / translations by Eileen Bray and Mary Thomas
Published Leederville, W.A. : Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, 2001

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 W'PONDS  305.89915 Rya/Fds  AVAILABLE
Description 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Summary Gives a rare insight into the history and way of life of the courageous women of Warmun and their extended families with its impressive collection of personal memoirs
Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies (Western Australia,Australia)
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 323-325
Subject Kija / Gidja people (K20) (WA SE52-06)
Gija / Kija people K20.
Aboriginal Australians -- Food.
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Turkey Creek (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek
Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Australia -- East Kimberley (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek -- Languages
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek -- Legends
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek -- Social life and customs
Kitja (Australian people) -- Legends.
Kitja (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Kitja (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
Kitja language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- East Kimberley (W.A.) -- Aboriginal artists
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek -- Social life and customs
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Turkey Creek
SUBJECT Turkey Creek (W.A.) -- Economic conditions
Genre/Form Controlled vocabularies.
Biographies.
Author Bray, Eileen
Ryan, Veronica, 1956-
Thomas, Mary.
Catholic Education Office (Perth, W.A.)
LC no. 2001430195
ISBN 0949426091