Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 6

red ground
Werribee - Kūrūng jang
5 ballŭk
(mob)

Mt Macedon - gūnŭng willŭm
6 ballŭk

Kilmore neera - ballŭk
7 neera = deep gully
[Kilmore and Seymour bracketted together]
Seymour - Būthera ballŭk
8
Alexandra - yowŭng illung
Mansfield balluk
9
Head of
Muddy Creek - Warring-illum
10 ballŭk
Big swamp
Below Benalla - [Yarrun - crossed out] Yeerŭm illŭm
11 ballŭk
Cape Schank - Būn mūrŭng
12 ballŭk
cannot [??] them much
good friends

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Wangaratta - Ballŭng Kara
13 mittang
[crossed out - ballŭk]
būlla
14. Wŭdthowrung ballŭk
Geelong
[1 from Geelong - to Geelong + Seymour - crossed out]
1 to 14 - 3.8.11.12.4.8.7.
10.
5. from Bacchus Marsh Grey Ballŭk
Thallin Willŭn-
at Bullingerook
6. from same as five
7. from of Bacchus Marsh & from
Dandenong
8. from Ngouranglŭng būlla
at Murchison
Ngouranglŭng būlla from
Echucha are called
Baingerang

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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 759

Medium Notebook

Region —

Locality —

Summary Belonging to A.W. Howitt. Anthropological notes, from front and back of notebook varied content including notes on language, social organisation and customs and legends. Discusses the Yarra Tribe and groups across eastern Victoria. Includes language notes and diagrams, kin terms, names of people along coast and Victorian group associations with localities. Notes on 'eaglehawk and bunjil'. Possibly information from Barak ''My name is Bairuk - grub of gum tree'. Illustrations of weapons and burial practices. Notes from Paterson's 'The History of New South Wales, from Its First Discovery to the Present Time.'

Physical Description Notebook, black, hard-covered, entries in pencil. Condition: fragile; first section of pages weakly attached. No clasp.