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Kapi kulladunya, lookhole (holding 



water) 

 Kaiya, fire 

 Kaiya voya, smoke 

 Kaiya bar. Bar, lightning 

 Irgalyii, charcoal 

 Bunga, ashes 

 Mamma ange, thunder 

 Malga yet, Malga bikli, cloud 

 Wandurka, Gurrurringa, Kurriuga 



(abbreviation), rainbow 

 Pika, Birrilla, wind 

 Yinga orarringa, whirlwind 

 Tanba, dnstatorm, whirlwind 

 Chindu, sun 

 Burnga, star 

 Parna, earth 

 Puri, stone 



Puri irrillya, quartz, white stone 

 Kadji, Winda, spear 

 Meru, Wordat, spear-thrower 

 Tadil, Wara, hook of spear-thrower 

 Baital, the sharp stone at the end 



of the spear-thrower 



Used as a chisel. It is mostly a piece of 

 flint. 



Gnora, the cement used for fasten- 

 ing the Baital 



It is made from the reairi of the (Jrass- 

 tree (Xanthorrhea), which is mixed with 

 sand and dust. 

 Kaili (east), Wnilena (west), 



boomerang 

 Unain, Vergu, message-stick 

 Yilbar, Kundain, an oval piece of 

 wood nine to twelve inches long, 

 and from two to three inches 

 wide ; flat on one side, and 

 rounded on the other, and some- 

 times half an inch thick in the 

 middle 



The flat side is mostly ornamented with 

 carved lines forming; various desijjns. The 

 rounded side is smooth. A hole at one end 

 allows it to have a strinfr passed through, 

 by which it is rapidly rotated throufj^h the 

 air, to produce a loud burring' sound. This 

 serves to warn the women that some cere- 

 mony is !?oin^ on which they must not at- 

 tempt to see. The women must not even 

 look upon the yilhar at pain of death ; it is 

 therefore carefully hidden from them. 

 Kondell, Wondarra, nose stick 

 Balga, Yauwilli balga, IJalgerri 

 yauwilli, \'"auwilli talla, a thin 

 stick about four inches long, and 

 pointed on both ends 

 Tt is used for pirmin^^ the hair to^^ether, 

 as well as for piercinj:^ holes, &c. Mostly it 

 is marked and ornamented by means of the 

 glowing end of a piece of stick from the 

 fire. 



Yari, water or food-bowl,, made of 



wood 

 Moya, eanoe-shaped a'CsscI for water 



or food, made of a thin slieet of 



Eucalyptus bark 



The sheet of bark is folded on two ends, 

 and the folds leathered and tied with a strip 

 of flexed bark. 

 Worma, picture etchings on bark 



These are done by scratcliina: the <jreen 

 bark on the inner side with a sharp point. 



Yindinga, a head ornament used 

 during some dances 



It is made of a thin stick, which is shaved 

 down with a sharp stone, the flne shavinjrs 

 bein^ kept attached on one end. At inter- 

 vals of about four inches, and where the 

 shavings are still fast, these are formed in 

 a spherical, loose ball, their curling allow- 

 ing: theui to be easily matted together with 

 the hand. Often the down of birds are put 

 on to these balls, and for further orna- 

 mentation the stick on the intervals is 

 colored red with blood. For making this 

 ornament, the young, straight shoots of 

 casuarinas are used, the wood of which is 

 very white, and easily worked. Tvv» are 

 used at the dance, one on each side of the 

 head, rising horn-like about two feet in the 

 air. 

 Malga mintorat, house, tent, &c. 



Verb, '* to keep rain out." 

 Minda, Wanomu, the shelter made 



by the blacks with bushes and 



brushwood 

 Uirgan, Wandamoin, pipe clay 

 Irrillya, the bright gypsum in its 



natural state 

 Dergaii, roasted gypsum, and used 



like pipe clay for painting the 



l)ody 

 Pori, Kulbar, a track 

 Anurru, Murdu, flying, to fly 

 Maiawangi, Maiwangi, the cawing 



of the crow 

 Y'^urnin, red 

 Tel, white 

 Kumma, black 

 Kuyal, green 

 Gnalla (Nalla) yera, Gnalla (Nalla) 



guya, the edible bark of the 



roots of some mallee in its natural 



state 

 Gnalla (Nalla) yindalj'a, the same 

 after having been dried and pounded 

 to dust, ready to be eaten 



Zoological Objkots. 

 Maryurru, spinifex wallaby ( tjargo- 



chestes sp. ) 

 Damma, opossum 



