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 5

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Aboriginal Words and Names- Upper Clarence River Dialect.

Collected by Thomas George Hewitt of Grafton and Lismore.

(Transcribed by Robert. L. Dawson)

—An Introduction and an Explanation—

The following lists of aboriginal words and names, with

their meanings, were collected by Mr Hewitt apparently

in, or about, the year 1909. His notes were evidently hurridly[sic]

taken in pencil and are very indistinct and extremely 

difficult to decipher. His son, Mr N. C. Hewitt of Tweed Heads 

* N.S.W, sent me the note book to do the best I could with it in 

the way of deciphering and classifying the words and meanings.

By taking plenty of time and aided by a magnifying glass, I 

managed to do this and failed with only a very few words the

balance, numbering about 325, now being set out herein on

the same lines as booklets containing words from Richmond

and Lower Clarence River dialects collected by me in 1922 

and 1935. Mr Hewitt does not definitely state the

locality, or localities, from whence his lists were obtained

but his son assures me that his father's informant was 

one Billy Buckan an aboriginal native of Estousville, 

which is up river from Grafton, and that therefore

* I received the note book in February 1936.

                                                    R.L.D