Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- Legendary tales of the Australian Aborigines
- Imprint
- Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Vic., 2006, 232 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780522852462
- Description
First published 2001.
"In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.
David Unaipon-the man on the $50 note-was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor.In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. Most of the stories come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples.
The stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a 'narrator'." [from https://www.mup.com.au/books/legendary-tales-of-the-australian-aborigines-paperback-softback 14/10/2022]
Related entries
People
- Smith, William Ramsay (1859 - 1937)
Without attributing Unaipon, W. Ramsey Smith published this work in 1930.
- Unaipon, David (1872 - 1967)
Themes
Related Archival resources
isVersionOf
- 'Legendary Tales of Australian Aborigines' by David Unaipon, 1924-1925, 1924 - 1925, Mitchell Library reference code: 431534; Unaipon, David, 1872-1967; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details