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Marranbala country / by Simon Normand with Maureen Marrangulu Thompson.

Title
Marranbala country / by Simon Normand with Maureen Marrangulu Thompson.
Author
Normand, Simon.
Publication
[Ngukurr, NT.?] : Simon Normand, 2009.

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Thompson, Maureen Marrangulu.
Description
276 p. : col. ill., maps; 16 x 25 cm.
Summary
Ngukurr art reflects the histories of people from nine different language groups, many displaced from their ancestral countries.
Subject
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Artists, Aboriginal Australian > Roper River (N.T.)
  • Painting, Aboriginal Australian > Roper River (N.T.)
  • Aboriginal Australians > Roper River (N.T.) > Legends
  • Aboriginal Australians > Roper River (N.T.) > History
  • Roper River (N.T.) > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Legends
  • Pictorial works
Note
  • Cover title.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 273).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- My stories -- Maureen Marrangulu Thomposon -- Chinamen story -- My father was a Larlganda -- My frist marriage -- Ch 1. Between a rock and a hard place -- Ch 2. Thank God for small mercies -- Ch 3. We are all boat people -- Ch 4. Devil-Devil all about -- Ch 5. Roper fever -- Ch 6. To Wunubaryi -- bringing country closer -- Ch 7. Banquet at Yumunguni -- Ch 8. One canoe -- Postscript -- The Goanna returns -- Barrunpa -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9780646510781
  • 0646510789
OCLC
  • 320283381
  • SCSB-10666468
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library