Field notebook
Transcription - Page 12
Buffalo Tribe
1) What were they called
2) Where did he see them
3) When -
Ya-it-mathang
Thed-dora-
Wolgal
Kallakallap - from
Bunjil
Mogullum-bitch tribe
Has seen Theddora speaking
blacks at - Merri ck
before the stones
toward [??]
[??] Theddora [?mittung?]
[next page]
[torn off page, untranscribed]
Name for junction of
Wattle tree Rd with Dandenong
Road
[crossed out - Kurnan]
Kurnanga
rising ground
Koornang -
Document Details
Date
1901 - 1894
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 765
Medium
Notebook
Region
—
Locality
—
Summary
Belonging to A.W. Howitt. Entries in both front and back of notebook, which are predominantly anthropological but some survey notes are included. Notebook contains excellent information on Victorian placenames obtained from unnamed informants (possibly Captain Turnbull aka •À_Nungilabua•À_, Captain Harrison, Dick Richards and William Barak) at Coranderrk on 23/6/1900. There are also notes taken 'to Nerim 9 Feby 1901 on natural science.
Physical Description
Notebook, small blue leather-bound, with metal clasp. Entries in ink. 55 sheets, 69 pages. Condition: extremely fragile; loose spine and pages.