Box 4 Folder 3: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 21

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               Aboriginal names with Meanings             217

Native name                            English Equivalent

Merungle old man saltbush
gunaga a collection of waterholes
Tibora ----- }Named from high trees climbed
}   to make observations
Keewong Where the moon camped
Boolbadah {Where camp was being made but 
{was for some reason abandoned
Munjackata a kind of pipe clay
Wee-in-jellibah A camp where wood was scarce
Dickadi where man fell in waterhole
Boonoona white ground
goonah grey water snake
Mimda mutta - {Hermuts home (so called because a
{man lived there alone and would
{not go about with other Blacks
[Koolanjin]? Forked sticks stuck in the ground
Winangubbah Where Dingo stole meat
Murrumbong good place or good for game

 

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