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Texts, mostly in Wik-Mungkan. Part two

Archive Collections / Ursula Hope McConnel / Texts, mostly in Wik-Mungkan. Part two
Collection: Ursula Hope McConnel
Series Identifier: AA 191/13

Texts, mostly in Wik-Mungkan. Re-ordered from the state in which they were found to the order in which they appeared, in free translations only, in McConnel’s 1957 book Myths of the Mungkans.

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AA 191/13/01 - Title: ‘Myths of the Bull-roarers (Moipaka) Husband and Wife’.
AA 191/13/02 - Title: ‘Myth of Pukmanya. The Making of a Baby (a Boy). By Araman
AA 191/13/03 - Title: ‘Myth of the Snake and Dove. By Hope. Andyimban (And ‘Rosie’)’.
AA 191/13/04 - Title: ‘The Presentation of a Baby to its Namesake.’
AA 191/13/05 - Title: ‘Myth of Mai Kuyan and Mai Polpa, the Honey-bee Husband and Wife and Mai Mola, their Bee Children. By Hope (Andjingit).’
AA 191/13/06 - Title: ‘Myth of the Swamp Fish It.a. [On literal translation header:] Told by Henry Konutan’.
AA 191/13/07 - Title: ‘Myth of Min Yuwam and Wantya Koman Tuwa Nunganda, the Black Snake with Red Belly and her Daughters. By Kongutam.’
AA 191/13/08 - Title: ‘Myth of Panti’auwa’.
AA 191/13/09 - Title: [after cover sheet titled ‘Free translation wanted. Corrected’] ‘Myth of Panti’auwa. By ‘Lomai’.’
AA 191/13/10 - Title: ‘Myth of O.nya and Pi.na, the Ghosts Husband and Wife.’
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