Notes by Howitt on the Kulin Nation

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The Kulin Tribe

References

Other tribes 68 to 72
Wurunjeri – 67
Boonorong - 67

Boundaries 67, 53-54, 59 and tribes of Kulin Nation - 11
Initiation 8 – 9 – 50 56. death 10 – medicine men 10, The Bone 11. Kidney fat 12.
Burial 62 13 – ghost – 14 Murup of animal 16 – Eaglehawk carries off child 18 – Messengers 56. Visitors 57.
Sex totems 41 18 – Bunjil legend 56 22 – Infanticide 22 – Bunjil went up 23 – World props 23 – Burning the dead 23 –
Signal left at camp 24 – Blood feud 43 25 – Winberi’s song 30 – Dream of Kangaroo 31. 5
Food prohibitions of novices 32 – Headmen 5 33-34-35-38 39-55-56 Stealing tomahawk stone 36 – Tomahawk quarry 38
Totems – stars 57 44 – Pleiades 45 – Stars 56 Mariné bek 50 47 – Nose boring 49 – Waang & Bunjil sticks 50 –
counting with the hand +c– 51 – Smoke Signals 52 – Jajaurong 53 – Thunder 55. Bull roarer 55
Widows 55 - Languages 58 – clans ([?having?]) 58 – Exchange of food 59 - 60.
Camping rules 66 Buckley 61. Wife's mother 61 – Six wives – one Headman 62.
Ngamat – 62 - 63 The sun & moon 63 – Aurora 64 – old people, care of 64, - Bunjil 64
Bringing back the dead murup 65 The Urūnjeri – 53. 59. 40. 1
Border of Kulin & tribes having Krokitch & Gamutch at St Arnaud.
“Captain” – whose “mir” is Moiwilluk + Wartwut. “Doctor” who is
Garchuka +c
Theddora mittung at great Kulin meeting 67
Names of Redgum & Banksia 67.
Names of places – 68 Jajauwong 54
Bilbileri [underlined] 36, 39
Turnbull [underlined] 34 34 A, 39
Bebejern [underlined] - 37
Bŭngerim [underlined] 46
Malcolm – 39
The Kŭrnŭng-willum tribe – p 39. 37. 38
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Latrobe Papers
cannibalism .p 1 - war implements -10 – Billibileri – 10 – Gippsland blacks 11
Signal fire p 3
chiefs – 4. Old men 4. 5. eminent men 9.
private property 5. good feeling among them 5.
Burial 5. Orphans 6. Marriage 6. Laws 6. Murder 7 +c
Alliance of tribes 7. would never die +c 8 Kidney fat 8
Dances 8 – games 8 – Punjil 11, Binbeal 11, Pallian 11, Making of men -12
The flood 13 – Wind 13 – Thunder 13 – Native bear 13 – Wambat 14
Doctors 15 – Murrina Kooding 15 – Camps 15 – Fight between Barrabool and
Buninyong blacks North of Melbourne 17 – Encampment of different tribes together 19.
ceremony of Tanderrum 20 – of Murrum Tukkerook 22 ceremony of Tib-but 23.

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2 Marriage
3 elopement
39 wives
50A 34B
50
61
62
55 widows
54