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Weapons and Domestic Articles
Spear (of hardwood, not barbed) | Be-lar-rah |
Boomerang (right hand) | Young-narl-girree |
Boomerang (left Hand) | Wah-rah-guee |
Boomerang (for war, heavy) | Uloo-gun-gah |
Battle axe of flat hardwood curved at one end and pointed | Warrun-Warrun |
Battle axe of round wood curved at one end pointed and used like a pick | Eye-yar-rin |
Club of Hardwood | Gunn-lin |
Paddymelon stick about a foot long, used for throwing at small game | Yah-burrah |
Shield (of light wood) | Yah-rah-gul |
Gunyah, or shelter of tea tree bark | Mun-duroo |
Gunyah, or shelter of Stingybark | Yac-coo |
Gunyah, or shelter of leaves and bushes | Woos-ray, or Yah-goo-rah |
A camp with a number of shelters | Wass-rah |
Rug of opossum skins | Moor-no-girree |
Opossum wool, or fur | Wor-rah-kee |
Spindle of green twigs to spin possom fur | But-tu-in |
Opossum fur spun into yarn or rope and used for belts and aprons etc | Boo-eye-yum |
Dilly bag, close woven of grass | Mogul-mogul |
Net Bag, open mesh of string made form bark | My-ar-lee |
Vessel, to carry water, made from the bangalow palm | Wiss-kee. |
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