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 18

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Note

   Some of the writing in connection with canoes is

extremely indistinct. What appears to be "out of grey

gum" probably means grey gum bark.

The "stick for ditto" may mean a stick like a 

paddle for propelling a canoe.

"Stick" (yam-boo-ra) is followed by two words which

I could not decipher though one looks like

'holding". Probably a stick for holding a canoe

such as one might drive into soil or into a mud bank.

Mr Hewitt gives 'bag-gool" as a gunyer, or bark

shelter, (see previous page) and the same word

for a canoe. Possibly both gunyer and canoe 

were made of stringybark. 

                                      R.L.D