Torres Strait Islander Legends

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Stories Under Tagai: Traditional Stories from the Torres Strait (Video)

This video tells the story of the Indigenous Knowledge Centres’ (IKC) of the Torres Strait and their work gathering and retelling community stories from the Torres Strait Islands.

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Retold – The story of Biw, told by Harriet Ober (Video)

This video is part of ‘Retold’, a digital stories series presented by the State Library of Queensland. Stories of the Torres Strait are retold as recorded in Margaret Lawrie’s book Myths and Legends of Torres Strait.

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Picture This – The story of Gelam the creator of dugong (Video)

This video is part of ‘Picture This’, a digital stories series presented by the State Library of Queensland. The videos were developed from artworks created by children and re-tell traditional Torres Strait stories from Margaret Lawrie’s Tales from Torres Strait.

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