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Language: English
Published by McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books Australia, Fitzroy, 1984
- Softcover
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8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle sunned, toned); pp. [x], 246 (last blank)], with illustrations + map. A near fine copy.
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- Title
- An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New
- Author
- Labumore: Elsie Roughsey [Paul Memmott & Robyn Horsman (eds.)]
- Publisher
- McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books Australia, Fitzroy
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- F-
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140072446
- ISBN 13
- 9780140072440
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Seller catalogs
- Australia - Aboriginal History and Culture, Local History - Queensland
Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island, Australia in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raised in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marriage, childbirth, medicine, education, crime and punishment across both worlds. This is a book of great charm - and a rare and significant portrait of an Aboriginal life during a period of acute often traumatic change.
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