Item 05: 'Aboriginal words and names chiefly from the Upper Clarence River Dialect, collected by Thomas George Hewitt of Grafton and Lismore', ca. 1909 and transcribed with additional notes by Robert L. Dawson, 6 June 1938 - Page 16

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x  A short heavy stick for throwing at small game.

        Paddymelon, a small scrub marsupial allied to the wallaby.

Note

   Mr Hewitt gives no explanation as to three different

   names for dilly bag. They may represent varying

   dialects or may be names from the same dialect 

   for different sizes or shapes of these cleverly woven

   bags. So far as I recollect, they varied considerably 

   in size though very little in shape or construction.

   Mr Hewitt describes the raw material as "reed"

   but really it is a coarse grass, flat stemmed,

   and tough, and grows in clumps on sandy ridges.

     I am not certain of the words "scrap net"

   (it may be "shrimp") or "paddymelon net" as

   they are very indistinctly written and the 

   long word is abbreviated. 

                                   R.L.D