Field notebook

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Transcription - Page 96

Leaur-gŭra -ballŭk
round the mountain
where Parker's Station
was. name gūrojang
Have then Campaspe:
No many there only Bunjil.
at Daylesford all the
Ranges where wambat
are are [Kalk Kalk -crossed out] gal gal Bullŭk
- all wang.

Leaur gura balluk have
[3 languages - crossed out] speak Woiworŭng
only with a sharp accent
half Jajowrong half
Woiworŭng

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The relatives of Bunjil
to Wang are called

[two lines difficult to read]
+ old men ask when
did your grandfather
(paternal come) from)

Thursday evening about
sundown the Tūtanarring were
placed in the ground
the Krauan behind them and
old Mary represented all the
mothers. [The men - crossed out] Jimmy Fidgett
waited with the boys as master of
the ceremonies. Old William +
Dick walked about. The
men all went away to cheers
and left a time - William
gave the signal to be ready

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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.