Notes about Camping and Food Division

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Transcription - Page 4

2
Kulin
With the Woeworung [a camp was made- crossed out] people fixed their camps as
[follows - crossed out] serve all in the following manner, taking
Berak's "wilam" (hut) as the starting point.

[Diagram]
(1) Berak wife + child
(2) Berak's brother ditto
(3) Berak's father + mother
(4) Berak wife's father + mother
(5) Visitors from the Būnurung Tribe
(6) young men's camp

The camp to suppose to be in Berak's country, say at
Heidelberg. Each hut faces the East
That of the parents of Berak's wife are behind
a screen of boughs. [and having - crossed out] The hut of
[Wille- crossed out] Berak's father between. The Bunurung
people camp on that side nearest to their
country which is to the southward. The IIII III and
young men furthest from the married peoples'
huts.

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Document Details

Date —

Letter From —

Letter To —

Author Howitt, Mr Alfred William

Country Australia

Colony/State —

Holding Institution Museums Victoria

Collection Name Alfred W. Howitt Collection

Registration Number XM 702

Medium Notes

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Summary Draft notes related to sections of text in Chapter XII of Howitt's 'The Native Tribes of South-East Australia', 1904; see pp.756-770, and 773-777. Notes contain content regarding regulations relating to camps, and to food division of a large number of groups. Some annotations in the left hand margins, record the group name and the source of the information.

Physical Description Draft notes, handwritten in ink, undated. Annotations and subheadings, throughout. Vertical line through almost all the pages. 13 sheets, 14 pages. Condition: foxing; some pages with tattered edges.