Field notebook

Transcription - Page 11

Balayang (Bat) lived in [the -crossed out] the
[west -crossed out] country to the West and spoke
the Wataurung language =
He had no wife - but only a
Wordai-gurk - She dug up yams
[Beru- crossed out] (Ba-ŭrne) mūrnūng -
and left them near his camp -
then went back to her own and
beat the drum on a rug to call
his attention to it. Then B. went
+ got the yams + cooked them
and eat them. Then when
he went out hunting + killed
a Kangaroo - he took back

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and left it near her camp
and went back to his camp
+ beat the sticks to call her
attention to the meat which she
took + eat.

The old woman then went
to a log and split it open
with her Yamstick - Kurn-naing
and there were two young women.
She told them to go down into the
lagoon + swim about.
They began then to beat the
water with their hands + make