Box 5/Item 21: Notebook re. Aboriginal languages, sign language, songs and tribes, undated - Page 14

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Musical Instruments etc

Beating sticks - alteration in time, quickened

to double

The drone-pipe - Titchurudu ("Didjeridoo")

made of hollow limb of blood-

wood, Delamere, Victoria Downs,

Humbert River, Wave Hill.

Beating thighs together, by gins at they hop

(photo) forward/Katherine, Humbert

  

Corrobboree chant/Humbert River):

A bran min ma lai

bran min ma lai

Gins clap their hands, and hit two

pieces of stick together (Delamere), also

beat their thighs. One mother holding

child with its arms clasped round her

neck, gently beating the tune with her

folded hands against child's buttocks.

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