Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 51

and putting it in
the ground, and
then looked to see ---
it was gone ----
They said a big lump
there - none now.
There was man lying
covered with earth all
but his mouth. It
was open and the
[?gems or gums?] had gone in it.

Bye and bye they saw
something there - they
got a little spear
and speared it.

A voice in the ground
said what do you
do that to me for?
The old man jumped

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up and caught the
the boys; and the old
people said there was
no [??] up in Yarra
nor any creek - [but - crossed out]
the old man was
taking the two boys
along the Yarra and
had his camp
where the ships lie
in the the yarra at
Melbourne. He had
made a drain
after him all
the way. The Water
ran after him and
covered the ground.

Bunjil saw the
old man and put
things like rasors [sic] in

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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.