The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia and the Routes by which it Spread Itself Over the Continent, Volume 3J. Ferres, 1887 - Aboriginal Australians |
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Common terms and phrases
baby A White Bangerang Bark Beard Big Little Dead Black duck Black woman Nose Blackfellow A Black Blacks 3 Blacks boolaroo Boomerang Camp Canoe Crayfish Mosquito Fly Dark Cold Heat Dead By-and-by dog Wild dog don't know Plenty Fat Bowels Excrement Fire Water Smoke Fish Lobster Crayfish Heat Day Night Hill Hair Hungry Thirsty Eat Kabi Kamilaroi Kangaroo Opossum know Plenty Big kooli language Light Dark Cold Lobster Crayfish Mosquito Milk Eaglehawk Moon Star Light Mosquito Fly Snake Mount Royal Mouth Teeth murra murri Native companion Ngooraialum nule old woman Opossum Tame dog Pelican Laughing Pittwater Plenty Big Little Rain God Ghosts Recherche Bay Reed-spear River Sister-Elder Smoke Ground Wind Star Light Dark Stone Tasmania Throwing-stick Shield Thunder Grass Tomahawk Walk War-spear Reed-spear Water Smoke Ground White cockatoo White man Children Wild dog Emu Wild turkey Wife WILLIAM RIDLEY woman A baby Wood duck Younger A young Younger Brother-Elder
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Page 670 - ... rock about it was painted black, and the figure itself coloured with the most vivid red and white. It thus appeared to stand out from the rock; and I was certainly rather surprised at the moment that I first saw this gigantic head and upper part of a body bending over and staring grimly down at me. It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of this uncouth and savage figure...
Page 671 - I thought it would be well to endeavour to ascertain what amount of cranial variation is to be found in a pure race at the present day; and as the natives of Southern and Western Australia are probably as pure and homogeneous in blood, customs, and language, as any race of savages in existence, I turned to them...
Page 670 - ... executing. The only proof of antiquity that it bore about it was that all the edges of the cutting were rounded and perfectly smooth, much more so than they could have been from any other cause than long exposure to atmospheric influences.
Page 541 - The mode of proceeding was to obtain possession of something which had belonged to the person whose death was desired, such as some of his hair, excrement, or food ; or to touch him with an egg-shaped piece of stone which was called bulk, and was thought to be possessed of magic powers. At other times they would charm by means of the makthar (real name of the person), or several of them retiring to some lonely spot, and drawing on the ground a rude likeness of the victim, would sit around it and...
Page 155 - While the fruit is in season, they filled netted bags with the seeds, and buried them generally about the beds of creeks, to be ready for use when the season was long past. Bunyas that had lain for months underground had, when taken up, a most offensive smell, which they imparted to all that came in contact with them. Nevertheless, the Blacks ate them with great relish. In some seasons, the yield was very scant. At the prospect of an abundant yield, tribes would come the distance of a hundred miles...
Page 438 - In addition to the foregoing phrases and short dialogues Mr Beveridge sent me many others which I have not thought it necessary to insert. Though they show well the rude form of conversation prevalent in our tribes ...' Nevertheless, the works of the Beveridge brothers are important in that they give us information on Wadiwadi.
Page 170 - he was once travelling with a black boy, when the latter produced from the lining of his hat a bit of a twig about an inch long, and having three notches cut on it. The native explained that he was a dhomka, that the central notch represented himself, and the other notches — one the youth sending the message, the other the girl for •whom it was intended. It meant, in the words of Dickens,
Page 145 - the mother-in-law must not look upon her son-in-law at any time : they believe that if she did he would go mad, and would go and live in the bush like a wild man.
Page 161 - The poet having introduced his work to the neighbouring tribes, these in turn invited their allies to witness it and aid in the performance. In this manner a corrobberree travelled, and was sung with great enthusiasm where not a word of it was intelligible. The story of the drama appears to have been...
Page 541 - Creator of all that has life on the earth they believe to have been a gigantic Blackfellow, who lived in Gippsland many centuries ago, and dwells amongst the stars. Indeed many of the stars are named after some of their people long since dead.