Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 49

M. Fath.Sist Dau [son crossed out] - bam-brŭ
M " " son - Kakai
F Fath Sist dau - lal-lal
F Fath Sis son - wūrungain

F Moth. Bro son
wūrŭng-ngain
M Moth Bro son
wūrŭng-ngain
M Moth Bro dau - bambrŭ
F M Bro dau - lal lal

granny
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because there are
others
different from

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re Bunjil - the others
being waang
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Pleiades was [??]
of young women
they had fire [??] [two words crossed out]
They roasted yams and
eat them and gave
the Waang the raw ones.
By and bye Waang found
a cooked one. He said
Hallo! They gave me
only raw one. (Murrŭng
= Barm) Then he went
and got a lot of snakes
and hid them in an
ant nest. He said
to the young women
come to the fine ant
nest and dig it up.

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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

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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.