 | John Ferguson McLennan - Endogamy and exogamy - 1896 - 634 pages
...Ballar-wauk, Ballard, is given in the vocabulary as a very small species of opossum, with this note : " Some natives say that the Ballaroke family derive...times subsisted principally on this little animal." Balla-ga-ra is also a species of op'ossum. 2. Djin-be-nong-cra, a species of duck. "The Ngotaks formerly... | |
 | Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen - Aboriginal Australians - 1899 - 778 pages
...says, in regard to the Ballaroke, a small opossum, " Some natives say that the Ballaroke family derived their name from having in former times subsisted principally on this little animal " ; and again of the Nag-karm totem, he says, " From subsisting principally in former times on this... | |
 | 1869 - 730 pages
...Ballar-wak, Ballar, is given in the vocabulary as a very small species of Opossum, with this note : " Some natives say that the Ballaroke family derive...times subsisted principally on this little animal." Balla-ga-ra is also a species of opossum. 2. Djin-be-nong-era, a species of duck. " The Ngo-taks formerly... | |
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... Unfortunately, he seems to have been able to collect the meaning in eight cases only, and we have been unable to enlarge the list.1 Subjoined are the derivations in the eight cases : — 1. Ballaroke. Ballar-wak, Ballar, is given in the vocabulary... 