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Putta kara, Aristida arenaria 



When this name was given to me the 

 black G0uj,^hed, and made a siifn that the 

 Pseeds and awna produced coag^hinf^'. 



. robablj Kara means to cough, or getting 

 y^ck, vomit. 



Wangurna, Eragrostis eriopoiia 

 Elinya, scented grass (Andropogon 



bombyciniis) 

 Barka, bush, small tree 

 EUimai, fig-tree (Fious platypoda) 

 Meilurtu, pine-tree (Callitris verru- 

 cosa) 

 Undalla, pepper-tree (Oyrosteraon) 

 Wejindi, cork-bark- tree (Hakea 



lorea) 

 Waputti, tea-tree (Melaleuca sp.) 

 Mdngatta, peach-tree, qiiandang 



(Santalum acuminatum) 

 Alpa kara. Euphorbia Druinmondii 

 Pulanda, native tobacco (Nicotiana 



suaveolens) 

 Malumbumbi, geranium (Erodium 



cygnorum) 

 Kauba, Yilkaryilka, .Solauum petro- 



philum 



Ilguarra, Puyarra, Ultagumba, 



Kurpa, uiulga (Acacia species) 

 Minyu, Munyu, Acacia dictyophleba 

 Waitargo, Acacia salicina 

 Kabil kabil, Cassia pleurocarpa 

 Bundi, broom (Cassia desolata) 

 Yenumba, Dodomea viscosa, var. 



lanceolata 

 Umbagumba, Ultagumba, (irevillea 



junciofolia 

 Urdu, Gnaphalium sp. 

 Ulurla, Heliohrysum apiculatum 

 Gnaugrau, Eremophila latifolia 

 Geringeriu, Sida petrophila 

 Purarpurar, Ptilotus obovatus 

 Arbitta, ? Heliotropium 

 Pudya gauba, Goodenia heterochila 



(gauba, to vomit '!) 

 Alia, Altarpa, Eucalyptus pyri- 



formis 

 Tumbudjumbum, a flower 

 Wangu, spinifex seed 

 I'robalily all kinds of seed ; befause — 



Wangu means also young plant, 



small plant, and 

 Wangu, Sctevola depauperata 



VOCABULAKY OBTAINED I'KOM SEVERAL NATIVES MET NKAK 



THE Frasee IIange, and belonging to various tribes which are 

 friendly wifer so. They inhabit the districts to the east and west 

 of this locality and to the south to about 100 miles from the 

 coast. To the north-west at Hampton Plains a small tribe is 

 living tliat is also friendly with them. The habits and language 

 are essentially the same with all of them, but in some instances 

 different terms are applied for the same object. Whenever 

 "east" or "west" is attaclied to any word it means that it is 

 used by tribes living in tliis direction from tlie Eraser Range. 



Jviida uamba (nanba, guauba), 

 twisted string made of human 

 hair, to tie the hair back with 

 often very long, going perhaps a dozen 

 times or more round the head and as often 

 crosswise over the chignon. It is also used 

 round the waist to hold weapons and uten- 

 sils, and for the purpose of suppressing the 

 cravings of hunger it is tightened. 



Kada wurna, head cover, hat 



Mel, Wardu, eye 



Mel wendu, eyebrows and eye- 

 lashes 



Mel nimbit, Mel calba, eyelid 



MuUa, nose 



KayTyin, the hole in the cartilage of 

 the nose to put the kondel 

 through 



Parts ok the Human' Body. 



Minnin,* Bulga, Malba, man 

 Kija,* Wandi, boy 



*The first of these terms are alwa.vs 

 readily given, but they sound very like cor- 

 rupted English — from man and kid. 



Diurli, woman 



Maddal, young woman, virgin 



Wanya, little girl 



Kada, head 



Yuarru, Gnamba, forehead 



Kada birdi, Kada wendu, hair 



Kada doran, the chignon-like knob 

 of hair at back of the head, 

 formed by tying the hair back by 

 means of some namba 



