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Personal Names. 



Names are often given from some circumstance attendant 

 on birth, such as [ ^7 » ">7 gali] "raincloud," given to a girl child. 

 A soft rain was falling when she was born. [dj ; u : ndal] 

 "summer cloud," was also the name of a little girl. Sea 

 clouds hung over the coast and someone drew attention to 

 them. The child's grandmother [kabarli] caught the word men- 

 tioned and gave it as a name to the newborn baby. If a bird, 

 animal, insect, etc., is seen near the spot where the child is 

 born, it will receive the name of such object. In the case 

 of boy children their birth-name may be dropped after 

 initiation, when they will be called by the name of the place 

 where their initiation was /Carried out. A boy initiated in 

 1913 at a creek called [dji:gala], 16 miles east of Eucla, 

 received the name of the creek. His birth-name was 

 [gu:rardu], his mother's brother's name. Names of men: — 

 [tfarnduri?/] and [tfarnduriri], from [#arndu], the whistling 

 eaglehawk; [bi : ra 8u:gur], "dream moon"; [wo-^ala], 

 "crow." Names of dead relatives — grandparents usually- — 

 are frequently given to children. 



Tribal or Local Group Names. 



wi : rdrju wo^ga (from wi:ra, cloud and wo^ga, speech). 

 Tarcoola Road. 



ku :gurda viorjga, (ku :ga, meat). Ooldea (ju :ldil">7a) area. 



ju.lbari wo^ga (ju:lbari, south). Fowler Bay, Great 

 Bight, and towards Eucla. 



jagarga wo-^ga (jaga, woman). Eucla area. 



wadi woT/ga (wadi, man). Near Boundary Dam. 



ba : du wo^ga (ba:du, man). Near Boundary Dam. 



wo^gai'i : wo^ga. Boundary Dam area. 



^alia wo-^ga (^alia, our). North of Boundary Dam, in 

 the (Musgrave[ ?]) ranges. 



^aSa wo^ga (r/aSa, I, me). Near the wi :ro^u( ?). 



•»/andja wo^ga (lyandja, forbidden [ ?]). North of Bound- 

 ary Dam area. 



marda wo-^ga (marda, yes). Near Western Australian 

 border. 



jaga rjw.ri (jaga, mother [?]). North-west of Ooldea. 



bi:dju wo?7ga. Boundary Dam area. 



ku^gu (kundu) wo^ga (ku>7gu or kundu, woman). North 

 of wo^gai'i: woryga. 



andingiri. North of ^alia wo^ga. 



njun^a wovyga. North-west of wadi wo^ga. 



kurgara wor/ga. North of wadi wo>yga. 



djidji wor/ga. West of Boundary Dam. 



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