Territory Stories

Old Woman Emu:and other Kunwinjku stories

Details:

Title

Old Woman Emu:and other Kunwinjku stories,

Other title

Kurddukadji,

Creator

Nganjmirra, Jill, Tideman, Sonia,

Illustrator

McClelland, Joanne,

Collection

LAAL, Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project, PublicationNT, E-Books,

Date

2005,

Location

Oenpelli,

Provenance

This material was collected by the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project between 2013 and 2021. The project was led by Charles Darwin University in partnership with the Australian National University and the Northern Territory Government and funded in part by the Australian Research Council., Efforts have been made to identify and contact the person or people responsible for creating these materials to request permission to include them in this archive. If you have any concerns about materials being made public on this site, please contact us and we will remove the item from display until any concerns have been addressed.,

Notes

The stories were collected by Sonia Tidemann, Associate Professor at Batchelor Insitute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and translated by Jill Nganjmirra, a fluent speaker and writer of Kunwinjku and a very senior woman who lives at Mamadawerre, east of Kunbarrllanja (Oenpelli) in Arnhem Land., Stories handed down amongst Kunwinjku people from the dreamtime tell how a greedy old woman turned into an Emu; how the Long-necked turtle got his rounded shell and the Echidna his spines; destruction, healing and future safety for women; the sad events t,

Language

Kunwinjku, English, Kunwinjku language N65,

Subject

Gundja jeimi, Mayali, Bininj Gun wok, Gunawitji, Muralidan, Gunwunei, Wengej, Gunei, Kuninjku, Gunwinghu, Kulungutchi, Gunwingu, Gunwinygu, Wunei, LAAL, Urnigangg, Gunwinjgu, Gundjajeimi, Kunwinjku, Menngarr, Unigangk, Neinggu, Gundjeipmi, Koorunge, Witji, Gunrerg, Gunwingo, Neing gu, Mengerrdji, Bilingual education resources, Gumawurag, Gundeidjeme, Gunwinggu, Kunwinjku people N65, Kulunglutji, Gundeijeme, Maielli, Mangeri, Mangaridji, Traditional, Neinngu, Wengi, Majali, Gunwinngu, Kulunglutchi, Gunwiggu, Wengei, Kunwinjku language N65, Margulitban, Gurmadja madja, Kunwinku, Koorungo, Gundjeibmi,

Publisher name

Batchelor Press,

Place of publication

Batchelor,

File type

application/pdf,

Other identifier

cdu:55652, LAAL_ID:gu0110, PCA0026/P1,

ISBN

1741310261,

Use

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0),

Copyright owner

Batchelor Press,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/878290,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/878485