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Obley 35
| Bila | a Creek |
| Boonal | A stone tomahawk |
| Boorandool | Country where oak timber grows |
| Bulathery | a plover, and a place where they nest |
| Cookamobila | a creek with a number of stumps in it |
| Curra | a heavy Cold |
| Curbanmah | a very rough narrow passage |
| Dilga | a tree broken off leaving number of splinters |
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Dulung-thuggy |
Native meeting place where all the spears are stuck in a hole in the ground |
| Dungeeabah | a place where there a number of tails |
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Dunnang-mumma |
to catch a man by the heel |
| Durrong | part of the leg, the thigh |
| Gingean | an edible grass |
| Gooligambila | a creek where the Blacks, camped on it, used to wear their hair in nets |
| Goonambaugi | Any small thing, ie small Kangaroo |
| Goondah | Storm or Rain |
| Gullin Gari | Falling from a height |
| Moombil | Small schrub with a yellow flower |
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Tdheramgabumy |
Any thing struck with Nulla Nulla or spear |
| Oodthulby (Obley) | A place where the reeds bend over into the Water[?] |
| Uar | Yellow box Timber |
| Waudoo Waudong | a place where there are a number of ghosts |
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Wamboin Goolian |
Wamboin, Grey Kangaroo, Goolian I wish I had him |
| Wiradthery | The dialects of the Obley Blacks |
| Wongebone | The dialect of the Bogan Blacks |
The above is a list of Aborigines names for places in the Obley District and the meanings and reasons why the names were given
O. H. Elliott
!st Class Constable
Obley 25/9/99