"These stories, collected in manuscript and typescript as 'Legendary tales of the Australian Aborigines', were written in 1924-1925 and reside in the State Library of New South Wales. ... Presented here ... in their original form." --P. xi.
"These stories, collected in manuscript and typescript as 'Legendary tales of the Australian Aborigines', were written in 1924-1925 and reside in the State Library of New South Wales. ... Presented here ... in their original form." --P. xi.
Contents
Aboriginal folklore
Aborigines, their traditions and customs : where did they come from?
Some stories about my race : what the Aborigines' carvings near Sydney mean
Belief of the Aborigines in a great spirit
Confusion of tongue
Fishing
The flood and its result : Berrwerina tribe, Darling River
The gherawhat (goanna)
Gool lun naga (green frog)
Hunting
How the tortoise got his shell
Immortality
Love story of the mat rallang
The mat kar ree (moon)
Marriage customs of the Australian Aborigines
The mischievous crow and the good he did
Naroondarie's wives
Nhung e umpie
Panp parl lowa : spirit of help among the Aborigines
Sport
The story of the mungingee
The voice of the Great Spirit
The water rat who discovered the secret of fire and how it was taken from him by the eagle hawk
Whowie
Why all the animals peck at the selfish owl : the coming of the light
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David Unaipon - the man on the $50 note - was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. Most of the stories come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples. The stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a 'narrator'. In putting together this new edition of the stories Unaipon collected and transcribed, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker have undertaken to restore the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community - the community to whom the stories belonged in the first place.
Performer
Narrator: Stephen Pease.
Notes
CR #1.
DAISY book.
Unabridged.
Audio with NCC only.
Adult.
Original version Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2006 ISBN 0522852467
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The Sydney Morning Herald..., Thursday 13 January 1938 p 8 ... ABORIGINES' DAY OF MOURNING. . "Emotional" Protest Criticised. DAVID UNAIPON'S STATEMENT. ADELAIDE, Wednesday. DavidUnaipon, an educated aboriginal, said to-day that- the proposal for a "day of mourning" to direct attention to the grievances of the aborigines was a huge mistake. The movement, he ... 190 words
The Sydney Morning Herald..., Thursday 3 January 1924 p 5 ... LECTURE BY MR. D. UNAIPON. -. * Mr. DavidUnaipon, the cultured aboriginal who occupted the pulpit at St. Mary's, Waverley, verley, recently, will lecture on Francis Birtles' moving picture, "Abouriginals of Australia," In St. Mary's parish hall, Bir rell-street, Waverley, on Thursday night. The ... 51 words
The Sydney Morning Herald..., Saturday 5 August 1939 p 10 ... MISSIONS EXHIBITION. Mr. DavidUnaipon, the aboriginal anthropologist, pologist, will give lectures at the Australian Board of Missions Overseas Exhibition, which will be opened by the Governor, Lord Wake- hurst, in the lower Town Hall on Tuesday. Mr. Unalpoiî!- who is the son of the chief of the ... 55 words