Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 28

Queries

Telbing = strips of bark
What is name of first performers? did they
wear Brid-bridda in olden times [with?] nothing?
Where they rubbed all over with charcoal. no
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What did Billy say when he lifted boys up
out of bed - not a noise
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If boys broke laws of Mungan would he
do anything to them?
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Describe conjured scene
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Describe Kangaroo scene
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What is note of boys chirp.

chop up Kangaroo and lay on a log
and let boys cut it - tell them
Mrarts lent it them - old men not
this ground

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hole [underlined]
After the first scene boys [had been first- crossed out] were
dressed as men - Forehead red band, gumbart
necklace, brida bridda, armlets
and face for painted red.

Boys cannot eat wattle gum
until the old men cook and give
it to them. This is soon done.
And when in poor country the
rules are very soon relaxed.
eg at Lake Tyers where very
little flesh food.

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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.