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Page 45
... Gidja , my tribal country , but am wan- dering somewhere else where not even in my dreams have I been be- fore . I might have gone . . . not mad , but a bit strange , the way many old women do when they grow older . It happens to ...
... Gidja , my tribal country , but am wan- dering somewhere else where not even in my dreams have I been be- fore . I might have gone . . . not mad , but a bit strange , the way many old women do when they grow older . It happens to ...
Page 47
... Gidja people . Perhaps the whites wanted to know the secret - how our maba , the old man , chanted the rain - making ceremony and danced to bring water from the sky ; everyone in the tribe thought he could do that . The birds have come ...
... Gidja people . Perhaps the whites wanted to know the secret - how our maba , the old man , chanted the rain - making ceremony and danced to bring water from the sky ; everyone in the tribe thought he could do that . The birds have come ...
Page 50
... Gidja people curse me for it . Maba says the balandja are our relatives and lalai - totem , the white man calls it . Many of those chicks I gave away found their way back to the bush again . You can teach cocka- toos white men's words ...
... Gidja people curse me for it . Maba says the balandja are our relatives and lalai - totem , the white man calls it . Many of those chicks I gave away found their way back to the bush again . You can teach cocka- toos white men's words ...
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angry Anguban animals Baba babaru balandja barley sugar beast belly better billabong billycan bilma birds Boma boulder branches Bungawa bush bush tucker camp chant cliff cloud cockatoo crawl crocodile dark didjeridu dilly bag dingo Djangau dragged dreams dust Duwei eyes fellows fire flaps flock Galpu gather Gidja goanna gone ground hand hill hurry inside Jambawal keep leaves look mangrove marain Marngit Midinari Mother Murngin Nakara Namanama Nati never night Padre pandanus paperbark Perhaps Pitjanta pity Pupa Purelko Ranger rest river rocks Ruria sand seen Sergeant shelter skin sneak soul sound spear spirit boss spirit world stick stretch struggle tell Tiwa told track trap tree tribal country tribal elders trunk tucker valley voice walk wallaby Warand Warngi water hole Wati Wawa white man's whole wonder Wongar Yirli yudu