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Woonyoomboo: The Night Heron film

In this vibrant and engaging animated film, Annie shares a story that was passed to her by her father, the story of Woonyoomboo: The Night Heron. Woonyoomboo was a major Creation Ancestor for the Nyikina people. This story shows how and where Woonyoomboo lived and travelled and how he brought the Nyikina world into being. Woonyoomboo left language, law, ceremonies, dance, kin and skin relationships and vast libraries of knowledge for the Nyikina people in an epic Songline.

This film is one cultural resource from a suite of resources sharing the Nyikina Community’s Woonyoomboo story, including a multi-touch book  and an interactive panel.

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