Tales From the Aborigines. SIGNED by W E (Bill) Harney

Tales From the Aborigines BY W E (Bill) Harney. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Publisher: Robert Hale London 1959 First Edition. Very good hardback with jacket, no owner inscriptions. Boards have a little bumping to edges. Some foxing - maninly to closed page edges. Jacket has some creasing and chipping to edges, some marks, and fading to spine. 189 pages with photos.

Stories from traditional storytellers about Pleaides, ancestral heroes; Wardaman stories of Lightning Brothers; Pitjantjatjara origins of Katatjuta; Wardaman and Mudbura stories of evil spirits, the Wulgaru; cautionary tales for children about disobeying the law from Wogait, Gagadju, Tiwi, Mara, Uwaidja, Ngalkan and Ngalkban storytellers; post contact stories of post survival of Pongi-Pongi family, conflict between Aboriginal and European law relating to family relationships, work of trackers; Uluru sacred sites.