Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 29

Billy Mcleod. W, 2
Lamby. W, 2
Billy Wood,
Dick Cooper,
Billy Bull; 1
Joe; 1
Toby;
Larry;
Billy Clark, W, 1
Tommy Hodinot, W, 1
Charley Blair, W, 1
Kangaroo Jack, W, 1
Bobby Brown, W,
King Charley, 1
[Johnny Fetchett?], 1
William Barak, 1
Dick Richards 1
McKay, 1
self 1
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ten fares @ 5/- 50
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Contents

(1) Origins of this meeting through my action
(2) calling of meeting
(3) meeting – delays -difficulties
in inducing them to go on
(4) Secret council of old men – the Brejak
tŭrmaūnt – the proceedings commence
(5) 1st scene the performers
2nd scene ditto- then bough
performance – putting boys to sleep
(3) the bundle of rods
(4) waking the boys
(5) showing the Waintwŭn
(6)

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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.