Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 174
... voice of one of the Mustle brothers called out to Sandy , who pulled up the horses . ' Nah , ' said Sandy One Mason . ' Didn't see anything . Nah , haven't heard nothing . ' Fanny heard other men arrive , rush away again . The wagon ...
... voice of one of the Mustle brothers called out to Sandy , who pulled up the horses . ' Nah , ' said Sandy One Mason . ' Didn't see anything . Nah , haven't heard nothing . ' Fanny heard other men arrive , rush away again . The wagon ...
Page 290
... voice was a little more strained . ' So why you acting like this ? ' ' Go back to where you came from . ' Harriette had had enough of pausing . ' I come from here . There were a lot more of us at one time . I'm married to a white man ...
... voice was a little more strained . ' So why you acting like this ? ' ' Go back to where you came from . ' Harriette had had enough of pausing . ' I come from here . There were a lot more of us at one time . I'm married to a white man ...
Page 408
... voice - my Uncle Will's ' Shut that bloody kid up ! ' and the mother's usually so timid hand hard across my mouth . ― Is that why I have held my silence so long ? Why I hesitate even now , thinking a shout must come from who knows where ...
... voice - my Uncle Will's ' Shut that bloody kid up ! ' and the mother's usually so timid hand hard across my mouth . ― Is that why I have held my silence so long ? Why I hesitate even now , thinking a shout must come from who knows where ...
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines arms Auber Aunty Australian Natives Association beach Benang bird boat camp campfire Chief Protector child Constable Hall Daniel Coolman dark Dinah Dubitj Creek dunes Ern's eyes face Fanny father feet felt fire Frederickstown Gebalup girl Grandad grandfather grandfather's grinning half-caste hands Harriette head heard held hessian horse Jack Chatalong Kathleen kids Kim Scott knew Kylie Bay land laughed listened looked mallee Mason Mogumber mother moved Mustle natives Neville Nyoongar Nyungar once paperbarks perhaps police policeman Protector of Aborigines quadroon railway rainwater tank remember sand seemed Sergeant Hall shoulder sister skin smile someone Starr stay talk teamsters thin things thought told Tommy took Topsy town trees turned Uncle Jack voice wagon walked wanted watched wife wind Wirlup Haven woman women words Yeah