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Euahlayi and New South Wales
Euahlayi and New South Wales Aboriginal traditions, including K. Langloh Parker's Euahlayi materials and C. W. Peck's southeastern Australian legends.
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Australian Legendary Tales — K. Langloh ParkerA pioneering collection of Dreamtime folklore from the Noongahburrah (Euahlayi) people of New South Wales, featuring creation stories, animal fables, and mythic transformationsAustralian Legends — C. W. PeckA collection of Aboriginal legends primarily from the New South Wales region, including creation myths, flood stories, star legends, and tales explaining features of the Australian landscape and its flora and faunaThe Euahlayi Tribe — K. Langloh ParkerAn ethnography of the Euahlayi people of New South Wales, documenting their spiritual beliefs in the All-Father Byamee, kinship systems, medicine men, initiation ceremonies, and daily lifeThe Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales — R. H. MathewsR. H. Mathews’s paper on the Wiradyuri language of central and southern New South Wales, with shorter sketches of the Burreba-burreba and Ngunawal languages, a table of Burreba-burreba marriage sections, and vocabularies of about 430 Wiradyuri and 290 Ngunawal words that he took down from old speakers.