Box 5/Item 21: Notebook re. Aboriginal languages, sign language, songs and tribes, undated - Page 22

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Women gather bagfuls of waterlily

tubers which they carry upon their

heads. Large supplied are detained

when corrobboree is contemplated.

Seeds of waterlily collected

and crushed between stones, "damper"

baked. The stalks of lily also

eaten.

Cat's Cradle

(1876 Vol.V. No. 3, p 316 ?)

Anthrop Journal Vol 36

Roth Parl. Paper Brisbane 1900

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