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Page 30
... bilma , clapping sticks , and didjeridu loud enough to please every spirit in the country . The sound tells you that the time has come to go there and be made into a woman . I hope there is somebody there to tell me how to go about the ...
... bilma , clapping sticks , and didjeridu loud enough to please every spirit in the country . The sound tells you that the time has come to go there and be made into a woman . I hope there is somebody there to tell me how to go about the ...
Page 33
... bilma ? I've watched Nati chant- ing in camp many times . He claps the sticks one against the other a few times and then throws his voice high into the air so that it floats above the forest and across the bay to the land beyond . The bilma ...
... bilma ? I've watched Nati chant- ing in camp many times . He claps the sticks one against the other a few times and then throws his voice high into the air so that it floats above the forest and across the bay to the land beyond . The bilma ...
Page 94
... bilma , the clapping sticks - quite an old pair given to Baba by a tribal elder . The sticks must have been old : when you held them each finger rested in a depression worn by human touch . What a pity I will never be able to hold them ...
... bilma , the clapping sticks - quite an old pair given to Baba by a tribal elder . The sticks must have been old : when you held them each finger rested in a depression worn by human touch . What a pity I will never be able to hold them ...
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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