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Collected in Australian Legendary Tales are 30 stories shared by the Noongahburrah people and recorded by the author. A fascinating collection featuring stories that explain local landmarks, animal habits, and even the creation of animals themselves, this book represents one of the first collections of First Australian culture recorded after colonisation.This edition features the complete original text along with an introduction by Andrew Lang...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Collected in Australian Legendary Tales are 30 stories shared by the Noongahburrah people and recorded by the author. A fascinating collection featuring stories that explain local landmarks, animal habits, and even the creation of animals themselves, this book represents one of the first collections of First Australian culture recorded after colonisation.This edition features the complete original text along with an introduction by Andrew Lang...

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Reproduction of the original: Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker

Reproduction of the original: Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in AustraliaIn each phratry are smaller sets of persons, each set distinguished by the name of some animal or other natural object, their totem.' The same totem is never found in both phratries. Thus a person marrying out of his or her phratry, as all must do, necessarily marries out of his or her totem.The same arrangements exist among tribes which derive phratry and totem names thro...

Excerpt from More Australian Legendary TalesSome of the Blacks who have helped to build up this series belong to the Murrumbidgee, Darling, Barwon, Paroo, Warrego, Narran, Culgoa and Castlereagh rivers, the Braidwood, Yass, Narrabri, and other districts of New South Wales to the Balonne, Maranoa, Condamine, Barcoo, Mulligan rivers, and the Gulf country in Queensland. But I have confined myself as far as possible to the Noongah burrah names, th...

Excerpt from Australian Legendary Tales: Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the PicaninniesThe time is coming when it will be impossible to make even such a collection as this, for the old blacks are quickly dying out, and the young ones will probably think it beneath the dignity of their so-called civilisation even to remember such old-women's stories. Those who have themselves attempted the study of an unknown folk-lore will be able t...

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