W.T. Dawson and H.W. Pettit Gippsland place names and vocabulary
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Narbernbring .. stinging nettle
Bunn .. grass
Toom-bon .. good grass
Dollodrook .. bullrushes
Booy-yun .. reeds
Cowagil .. reeds
Goongong .. a native fruit
Doon-wongarra .. trees
Bugwall .. timber
Doonimart .. clup of wattles
Crie .. scrub
Dallon .. spreading bramch
Gerrung .. boughs, leaves
Jerrum .. leaf
Keenoot .. bark
Bungall .. fruit
PRONOUNS -
Nindoo .. you
ADJECTIVES -
Warragul, Warragal .. wild
Goongourn (0), Gourngower .. good
Lainman, Launman .. good
Budgeree (P) .. good
Din, Tinban .. bad
Din-din .. very bad
Cuoranlman, Couraalman big
Tourgie .. big
Buddalook .. large
Moothick .. strong
Nirrigidyong .. small
Tallicbun .. little
Coolur (P) .. angry
Bowsun .. sweet
ADVERBS [GO?]./
Document Details
Date
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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
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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.'