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STORIES OF OBED RAGGETT
Edited by Billy Marshall Stoneking

The Stories of Obed Raggett was the first bi-lingual text written by an Australian Aboriginal writer. In his foreword to the book, Don Dunstan writes: "What a delight it is to read these charming stories... To Aborigines, with their rich spiritual and ceremonial life, the oral, the story-telling tradition has been centrally important for thousands of years. Obed Raggett has made a great contribution to Aboriginal Art in Australia, and this book is a very personal contribution to the making of a record of Aboriginal life and art - it gives written form to the stories for which he has been the bard in his own society for many years - and makes them available for reading not only by the children but for others as well."

Editor, Billy Marshall Stoneking, who spent years living at Papunya Aboriginal Settlement in Central Australia, working closely with its artists and storytellers, has assembled a highly entertaining collection of stories rich with lore and insight into the lives and beliefs of Aboriginal people. Marshall Stoneking writes: "These stories come to us from the oldest oral tradition on earth... these are the sorts of tales that were told, re-told, and are still told around campfires in the heart of Australia. Some of them Obed heard as a boy at Hermannsburg, from the older men and from his mother; others from stockmen, both European and Aboriginal, who knew the bush and jumped in boots and all to fetch a tale for the telling..."

The Stories of Obed Raggett was published by Alternative Publishing Co-operative, in Sydney, Australia.

For more information, contact
Billy Marshall Stoneking
C/ Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Cnr of Epping and Balaclava Rds
NORTH RYDE, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Or email him at stoneking31@yahoo.com



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