Field notebook
Transcription - Page 28
(44) Bilibellery [underlined] - helped
Capt Dana to make police men
He talks to his people in the camp
every night for a week - Then
he brought his men to Capt Dana.
He said "Me king - I no ride
on horse. Young men do so - not
me." ----
Gellibrand a good man -
whose name was Beruke
(Kangaroo rat) - (run on
his mother when born
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(45) Porpoise -
What called by Berak
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(46) may they skin a numbat?
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(47) Puppeim bŭl - made the
Sun is - Estrelda temporalis
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(47)A The Nurrŭm-bŭng-ŭttias
called by the Fiery Ck blacks
- are the "old spirits"-
p 66
Document Details
Date
1901 - 1894
Letter From
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Letter To
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Author
Howitt, Mr Alfred William
Country
Australia
Colony/State
Victoria
Holding Institution
Museums Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
XM 765
Medium
Notebook
Region
—
Locality
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Summary
Belonging to A.W. Howitt. Entries in both front and back of notebook, which are predominantly anthropological but some survey notes are included. Notebook contains excellent information on Victorian placenames obtained from unnamed informants (possibly Captain Turnbull aka •À_Nungilabua•À_, Captain Harrison, Dick Richards and William Barak) at Coranderrk on 23/6/1900. There are also notes taken 'to Nerim 9 Feby 1901 on natural science.
Physical Description
Notebook, small blue leather-bound, with metal clasp. Entries in ink. 55 sheets, 69 pages. Condition: extremely fragile; loose spine and pages.