W.T. Dawson and H.W. Pettit Gippsland place names and vocabulary

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Niccoon-erngur .. conger eel
Mallindung .. mussel
Ballagon .. sponge

INSECTS -

Bookong (0) .. big fly
Ning .. flea
Jejurrit .. cricket

VEGETABLE WORLD -

Balloong .. gum tree
Uro .. red gum tree
Dagong .. box tree
Koopbara .. blackbutt tree
Toorming .. stringy bark tree
Dirtywum .. stringy bark tree
Balook .. blue gum tree
Kata-katak .. messamate tree
Matingara .. mountain ash tree
Yan-ut .. mountain ash tree
Lowngerut .. bastard gum tree
But-but .. bastard box tree
Den .. small box tree
Yadjuck .. apple tree
Bimiuck .. apple tree
Yan-un .. Blackwood
Toola-yowan, Yarwun, Yowan .. lightwood
Mourt .. wattle tree
Bric, Brick .. tea tree
Bearra .. honeysuckle tree
Baurn .. she-oak
Garuk .. tree-fern (alsophila Australis)
Kakaura .. (Dicksonia antantica)
Koor-nung-gatty .. kangaroo apple
Wannan-gatty .. kangaroo apple
Nallada-grounda .. cutting grass
Cut-wort .. pig face
Loumbric .. yam

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Document Details

Date —
Letter From —
Letter To —
Author Dawson, W. T. and Pettit, J. H. W.
Country Australia
Colony/State Victoria
Holding Institution State Library of Victoria
Collection Name Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number MS9356/437
Medium Article
Region Gippsland
Locality —
Summary MS 9356 [Series] Correspondence and notes concerning aboriginal tribes - Aboriginal tribes of Victoria. [Sub Series] Yaitmathang or Omeo tribes [Item Title] Typescript copy of article by W. T. Dawson and J. H. W. Pettit titled 'Gippsland vocabularies and place names: obtained and recorded in the fifties by W. T. Dawson, District Surveyor, and J. H. W. Pettit, Surveyor' with annotations to show Omeo District. [Summary note] 15 pages. Box 1054 [Folder] 2(c) [State Library Victoria record 2018]
Physical Description Typescript copy of article with a front page with handwritten title 'Dawson and Pettit Gippsland Aboriginal Vocabularies' and an annotation bottom left, 'M.E.B. Howitt, Eastwood, Lucknow.'