Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 103

twenty years apart - and [??]
[?] [?] T. plans proceeded until
formed a semicircle round the boys.
Boys [?] up; rugs took up [??] [??]
up - [rest of line too faint to read]
then down and the men [??] T.
Then [??] and same for [??] the other
whispers, Old Lamby + Billy Macleod
explaining laws to T.
Then boys induced to try them
Told that they are now no longer boys but
men + must leave boyish things
behind. [?Mundun?] + [?Bullroarer?] shown and
explained. Then Possum game
Then return to Initiation camp.

In evening, woman frightened.

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ngalowan = seal
RK. Conger eel - nooyang
Brookgatty

white bellied - Lawdyang nooyang
conger eel

[written upside down on bottom of page]
two young men going to kill Emu
Bŭragin β centauri
Kūnŭndra α centauri
Souther x is Emu on nest

Kūkūbŭrra = Laughing Jackass
= corona Australis
Bidjerigang = a small
= star
probably in
Argus

Bŭrdidge = Dūra

Hunting cry yo!

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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.