Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 101

(7) Teddelek all beaten

round - wati yah yeh!
Boys [not - crossed out] told not to speak any more
women & men [?parade?] out
round [?women’s fire?] for about 20 minutes
Then lie down sticks then by & bye
rugs told to lie still &
go to sleep.

A large fire lit in fromt
women camped just behind
from this time cannot eat
they [??] female animals except
feamle wambat-
Cannot eat porcupine or wild dog.

Old men stood round
and tell them this –

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[??] arrange them
comfortable.

When T. want anything imitate
Yeerung, note, Bul[lawang], the
says what do you want

Songs are:
Yahi wah!–yeh
Kaiŭng – yeh!
Yeerŭng yeh!

When boys want want anything give
two chirps – yer = several

Saturday
Yeerung – yeh! Commenced by women,

(1) uncovering by old men and Doctors
mulla mulla
Feeling stomach by Dr
so that should not in future
be too greedy + hungry.
This was done.
NB Because boys had been with the Loan.

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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.