Maypal, Mayali’ Ga Wäŋa

At 21 cm. and 273 pages, Maypal is a uniquely sumptuous and scientifically precise, alphabetically organised, visual field guide to all the historical and most recently updated scientific, common and Yolŋu names of Arnhem Land shellfish and invertebrates in a number of Yolŋu languages, Latin and English. It includes full colour illustrations, colour maps and keys to identification, cross referenced into ecological zones and Yolŋu bilingual alphabetical order. I.D by world expert Dr R. Willan. It also features hitherto unrecorded beautifully translated ancestral poetry of shellfish in six languages by eminent Yolŋu. It has rich illustrations of seasonal availability and wind directions with detailed descriptions and examination of commensurability in scientific and Yolŋu world views. With photographs from Lloyd W Warner, Donald Thomson and David Hancock and lustrously designed by Therese Ritchie, it is a masterpiece of cross-cultural collaboration, bound in gold leaf.

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