Item category 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

Retelling of an Aboriginal legend from the Kimberley region.

Noongar was originally an oral language, not written. Europeans used many different ways of spelling Noongar words.

The Original Australians tells the story of Australian Aboriginal history and society from its distant beginnings to the present day. From the wisdom and paintings of the Dreamtime to the first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians, through to the Uluru Statement, it offers an insi...

"I could not reconcile that a long family residency of the Fremantle and Cockburn area had not introduced me to the curious existence of an itinerant camp - on land traditionally a Nyoongar camping ground, along the beautiful stretch of wild coastline of Cockburn Sound and Woodman Point near wher...