Notes on Kurnai 150 pages

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The Kurnai tribe

The bad country wea wuk 3 1 - Bukan 1 - Set fight 1. 52 A The Kurnai language 2 - 7.8.15.39.4976.82 55.56.59.60.68
Name of birds 2.73.80 82.83.89 names of trees 2.73.83.84 Loän 3 stone tomahawks3
Jerail 4.18/19 - 39. 87. 97. [88-crossed out] Elopement - 5.27.45 [??] 5.6.7.12/13.27.60
Direction N.S.E.W +c 7 Rainmaker 41 Marks on Possum rugs +c 45. - Legends 46.
Food rules Jerail 9./11-24.28.48 77.79.81 Messengers 14/16.18.51 Biraark - 14.18.20.36.38.86
Dreams Omens 3 14.24.25.51.56.72.59 Aurora 14.15.58. Thunder 14.15 Sky 14.15.24 69
Moon + stars 15.32.56.58.68 Head men 17.18.32.39 Wild tribes 17. The old blacks 28.47
[??] ball as message 17. Mrarts 19.50.69 Baukan 21.25 Burial 47.59.89
Legends Brewin + the moon 22.63 Yambo 25.69 [??] Supernatural Beings 50
[??] [??] Magic 29.39.48.61.33.50 Doctors +c 29.40.41.34.37.59. Nungy nungit - 30/32.33. [?Varura?] +c 48.51.53A 70.73.[58.63 - crossed out] 54.67 76.82.84.86.86A 97.
Imported corroboree 55. Katūngal 56. Dress ornaments weapons 57.59. Visitors 62.63.66.68
[?crow?] 59.63.72 Clasns+c 64.-65- Kurnai ancestors 66. Widows 71.-
Legends 74.75 76. Muk Kurnai 74A - Drawings of Bulerwang + Tūtnŭrring. 91.
names of [?bats?], plant. [?water?] +c 73
[Kulu - crossed out] Kurnai ancestors p. 22

Batman + Port Philip blacks - 57.
Wimmera - magic. the bone 67.
Būnwurūng in 1841 not more than 500 - p 90 - Rain maker 90.
Kūlin Gesture Language - 91

Tūta-warra-wara division of [Malaua?] - p 90

[written in left side margin]
[?Kup?] - bora
E. [?Rignans?]
p 75