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Australian Legendary Tales

Australian Legendary Tales

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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 120

Description

The first publication of Australian Aboriginal myths and legends as collected in the field by Katie Langloh Parker in the 1890s, and first published in 1896. This is also the first publication by an Aboriginal artist, at the time not identified, but from the records it is Tommy McCrae, whose drawings form part of the national collection. Langloh Parker dedicates the collection of stories to Peter Hippi, 'probably the last King of the Noongahburrahs', a friend and employee of her family. She moved to Bangate Station in NSW in 1879 and had a particular interest in the Aboriginal people. She gained their trust through her respect for their culture and traditions and began to record the stories of the Euahlayi [Ualarai] people of the Narran River region. As so many aspects of Aboriginal culture were threatened by European colonisation, her accounts are considered to be valuable evidence of the beliefs and myths of the Aboriginal people of North-West New South Wales at that time.

Author Biography

Born Catherine Somerville at Encounter Bay, South Australia in 1856. She was saved from drowning in the Darling River by an Aboriginal girl when two of her sisters were lost. The family moved to Adelaide, South Australia in 1872, and Sophia died, following childbirth, in April of that year. When she was 18, Katie married 35-year-old pastoralist Langloh Parker at St Peter's Church in Glenelg, and in 1879 moved to his property, Bangate Station in New South Wales.Langloh Parker also wrote for the The Bulletin, Lone Hand, Pastoralists' Review and other journals. In 1905 she published an anthropological study of the Narran River Aboriginal people, The Euahlayi Tribe: A study of Aboriginal life in Australia (1905), for which Andrew Lang also wrote an introduction.After her husband died in Sydney in 1903, she met and married Percival Randolph Stow, and she lived with him in Adelaide until her death in 1940, aged 85. She is buried in St Jude's Anglican cemetery, Brighton, SA.

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