Notes on Kurnai 150 pages
Transcription - Page 126
Byrūng a evan mūllū
turn aside
I am mapping for water I see some one
[?behind?] coming up - then I looked round
they were gone + nearly dark. I said that is
mrārt.
Two or three days after I went up a tree for a
possum - I saw a little mouse
- a yakan - ahead - I said [?what?] this - someone
died - after [??] I heard of my mother [?sister?] dying
Saw a mrart at the garden at Jones
- it was looking at us through the palings
- I could see its eye like fire. He
ran away.
ngurring mree
[??] eye
Lightning wurrk - ba - mlāng - birrun
Document Details
Date
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Letter From
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Letter To
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Author
Howitt, Alfred William
Country
Australia
Colony/State
Victoria
Holding Institution
State Library of Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
MS9356/404
Medium
Notes
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Summary
MS 9356 [Series] Correspondence and notes concerning aboriginal tribes - Aboriginal tribes of Victoria. [Sub Series] Kurnai [Item Title] Notes by A. W. Howitt titled 'Kurnai. Various names of plants, language etc.'. [Summary note] Incorporates information from correspondents including Mr. McAlpine, J. C. McLeod and tribal informants. 145 pages. Box 1053 [Folder] 3(b) & 4(a) [State Library Victoria record 2018]
Physical Description
Correspondence and notes.