Notes from Bonwick's Book
Transcription - Page 4
it creates [?] which is often taken up by the whole tribe
as sometimes happens but the girl and her husband are
singled out and in the dead of night they are speared.
Man may not look at wife mother p 271
There are set fights - arranged by messengers (young men)
p 272
Timothy Angus McMillan (letter to [Binwind?])
At the MacAllister were rich and red in an
who and three human hand beautifully [?]
Suspended from his neck. p 491
Document Details
Date
1908 - 1883
Letter From
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Letter To
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Author
Howitt, Alfred William
Country
Australia
Colony/State
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Holding Institution
State Library of Victoria
Collection Name
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Registration Number
MS9356/417
Medium
Notes
Region
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Locality
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Summary
MS 9356 [Series] Correspondence and notes concerning aboriginal tribes - Aboriginal tribes of Victoria. [Sub Series] Port Phillip (see also Wurunjerri and Kulin nation) [Item Title] Notes from James Bonwick's book 'Port Phillip Settlement', London, 1883. [Summary note] 4 pages. Box 1053 [Folder] 5(d) [State Library Victoria record 2018]
Physical Description
References and notes, handwritten in ink, undated and unsigned. Numbered pages 1 to 3. Front page has annotations left hand side margin and a vertical pencil mark through half the page.