The
children usually picked an older relative who would look out for them
and as the bond strengthened the older relative would pass down many
stories.
" We'd tell
stories on t he ground too, draw it on the ground. Tracks too. Tracks
were something that we really had to take notice of. The old people
showed us. At night time they'd show us the tracks and in the day
time when we used to
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go out hunting and tracking kangaroos or whatever, they used to show
us the tracks and when there's a big mob of tracks they'd say "That's
the one we've got to follow because that was the last one here." We
used to say "How do you know that it's the last track?" and they'd
say "That's the freshest track because the old tracks have had beetles
walking on the top of the track and only knock around before the sun
comes up." (Lynch Ryan, Port Augusta, 1989 in Education Department
of SA, 1992:81)
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