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Traditional – The Heroic Fisherman: The Munjurr Myth*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

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Abstract

The Aborigines faced hardship and danger daily, so it is no wonder that courage was instilled in the youths by example and precept. The myth of the brave fisherman is typical of those told around the camp fires to show the young the kind of behaviour they should try to emulate (L.A.A.)

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , June 1979 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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* Reproduced from Time Before Morning – Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigine, by kind permission of the author, Louis A. Allen, and the publisher, Rigby Ltd. Adelaide, 1976