Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 94

goornan - porpoise

Warkūkunda = Wonga
Charlie Blair
Mūllŭnba - Harry Steven
[??] are names given by [?Him?]

In a hole at Wilsons Promontory
there are Loan +c
Doorŭk = Tiddelick

If the women were allowed to [show - crossed out] see
the Turndun the Big fellow up above
would be so angry that he would send
fire. The air & sky and earth would
be all fire and the Blacks would be
so terrified that they would all kill
each other out of sheer fright

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supposed to be
this fire & hence the dread at
its appearance.

The Big Fellow up above is called
by no name except – Mūngan -
nginaur – i.e. “our father” – and
Tulabar spoke of him in a hushed
voice with only a “That fellow” pointing
up with his fore finger. He said
that it was his father who told him
all this when he was made
Jeraeil. It was M.N.
who first made the Jeraeil –
made the Tundun, taught
the Blacks all their acts
eg to cut canoes and finding
them their personal names
eg Tankowillun, Warkukanda,
(Wonga) &c. The boys are told
about him at the Jeraeil.

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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.