First published by Allen & Unwin in 2018

Copyright © Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina 2018

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Cover and text design by Debra Billson

Cover images: photo of Immature Little Crow Corvus bennetti © Chris Watson (www.chriswatson.com.au); patterns within title © Ambelin Kwaymullina; background sky © pashabo / Shutterstock

Text design images: patterns and background sky as above; illustrated chapter-opener crow © Ambelin Kwaymullina, first published in Crow and the Waterhole, Fremantle

Press, 2007; ink splash © Milos Djapovic / Shutterstock

Photo on page 202 by Viva Photography, Fremantle