Field notebook
Transcription - Page 23
[Drawing of grave and showing position of deceased]
Murrawin now was stuck
in ground by his right
hand. [Buaurn? a Mūrŭp- crossed out]
When my father's brother
was buried the old
man from Dandenong
- half ngŭrungait and
half Doctor said
give him a murriwun
in his right hand
he never missed
a Kangaroo -
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Yerun illum Kūlin
eat flesh belonging to all
leg + foot
and arms. 1. 3, 5 [6 - crossed out] 7 13
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8. 9 & kidney fat. 11 & 14 back fat.
Western Port blacks drank
the blood, as well as
arm + legs 2. 4. 12
Eat skin only - of legs & arms 6 9.
[7 crossed out]
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Jajawrung blacks caught
an old man from Yarra
and took out his kidney fat
he went as far as [Betty Oak?]
and died.
Document Details
Date
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Letter From
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Letter To
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Author
Howitt, Mr Alfred William
Country
Australia
Colony/State
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Holding Institution
Museums Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
XM 759
Medium
Notebook
Region
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Locality
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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.