LANGUAGE, ETC., ABORIGINES OF POET STEPHENS. 



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Kutthung. 



English equivalent. 



Kutthung. 



English equivalent. 



Yur'-ra, the sky 



Yee-boo, to finish 



Yum'-bine, the scrotum 



Yo6 lun, to skin 



Yu-ka, the flathead fish 



Ya-ka, mahogany 



Yun'na, to walk 



Ya-ree, or 



Yo6-ra Yoo-ra, slow 



Yoom'-broo, in 



Yen -dhee-ree, the eyebrows 



Yar' ree-num'-ba, our 



Yal-lowa, to sit down 



Yit'-tuh, blunt 



Yo6-ra-ba-lee la, to hide 



Yoon'-nur-ra, awkward 



Yan-da-raee-nor, right 



Yer'-a-kee Yer'-rakee, painful 



Weapons etc. of the Kutthung. 

 The whole of the articles here described with the exception of 

 Fig. 20 Plate 3, have been collected during wanderings amongst 

 the aboriginals upon the shores of Port Stephens. 



Plate No. 3. 

 Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, are boomerangs of the returning 

 variety. They are about eighteen inches in length from point to 

 point and have a maximum width of two inches. 



Fig. 7 is a fishing spear composed of a shaft made from the stem 

 of the grass tree, seven feet six inches in length, and four pieces 

 of hardwood twenty-five inches in length lashed together, but 

 with the points separated by means of pieces of wood thrust in 

 between them, and fastened into the shaft by means of gum and 

 twine. They use this spear in catching the large fish. Going 

 into the water as far as he can to use the spear with effect, the 

 native stands like a statue holding the spear obliquely in poised 

 hands ready to strike his prey as-it passes. Standing motionless, 

 he is soon surrounded by fish, and the first that passes his feet is 

 pierced by a certain powerful thrust. Sometimes they make use 

 of a boat (the bark canoe is never used nowadays) from which 

 they spear the fish. 



Fig. 8 is the wommera or throwing stick used for the purpose 

 of throwing spears. It is made of two pieces of wood the larger 

 of which is thirty-two inches in length, with a breadth of three 

 inches at the end which is held in the hand and tapering to a 



