Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 100

They got over by coming in the big canoe
attended by a boy in small one who
turned back the other and so did laps.

Jirŭng = bough – Huh!

[Chart of burbung locations]
[Illustration of the sun] 6pm

(1) scene – Tedeling
(1)
(men) yeh! Wah-Yeh
[stick offering- crossed out]
(2)
(women) ya! qua -yeh!

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(3) Bullawang [?chorus?]
(4) yūī yūi-nga! [margin note: long drum]
raising up boys
by Bullawang
leave them over there.
The women hold up sticks with
boughs at end -
(5) then the same done
with the bullawang
one each -
Each Bullawang faces his
own country -
(6) laying down boys
He! (guttural) – Nge!
Leaves sprinkled over them.
Lie on back side by side
arm crossed on breast.
Covered all over with rugs

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Document Details

Date —
Letter From —
Letter To —
Author Howitt, Mr Alfred William
Country Australia
Colony/State Victoria
Holding Institution Museums Victoria
Collection Name Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number XM 761
Medium Notebook
Region —
Locality —
Summary Belonging to A.W. Howitt. Anthropological notes, from front and back of a notebook. Diverse notes, charts, lists and tables. Includes a list of names of people receiving rations. Various legends and customs. The notebook includes notes relating to the Yuin near Bega, as well as Western Victoria, the Wotjobaluk (Wergaia) and Bunganditj but also the Kamilaroi and the Wiradjuri. Also includes information on Bobby Wartwul, Charley Bega, William Benson and other Aboriginal informants. Includes information on the Wiradjuri - their barter system, marriage rules, power of medicine man; list of 22 words with English equivalents, 35 family names; Kamilaroi •À_ family names, genealogy of Bobby Wartwul, marriage rules, elopement, belief in Daramulan; tooth avulsion rite, sketch of a camp, methods of burial described, legend about the origin of Aurora Australia; wordlists in Kamilaroi and Wirdajuri with English equivalents.
Physical Description Notebook, black, hard-covered, undated. Entries in pencil and ink. 120 sheets, 205 pages. Condition: extremely fragile; broken metal clasp; binding coming apart; loose pages; cover is badly worn with sections missing along the spine.