Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
Author: first_name: Mary Grant
last_name: Bruce
Language: English
Year: 1922

Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people living, though their descendants are still around. This book contains 13 stories of the Gunaikurnai people, as told by their elders to the author. From the preface:<br>
<em>Year by year the old black tribes are dying out, and many of their legends and belie