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Title
My dusky friends : sketches of the south eastern natives of Western Australia, some of their legends and customs, 1861-1910 / compiled by Mrs. A. Y. Hassell
Creator
Ethel Hassell, 1857-1933
Call number
A 1534
Level of description
fonds
Date

1861-1910
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
947413
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 volume of textual material - typescript - 617 pages
Scope and Content
Typescript with manuscript notes and contents list:

Chapter 1 My home
Chapter 2 Native dress and weapons
Chapter 3 Native foods
Chapter 4 Twertup
Chapter 5 Native song and dance
Chapter 6 The chudic, waitch and coomal (the wild cat, emu, and ring-tailed oppossum)
Chapter 7 Burial rites, Legend of the eclipse of the sun
Chapter 8 Junnocks (Spirits)
Chapter 9 Waitch and Gindie (emu and stars). Yardie
Chapter 10 Legend of the Southern Cross
Chapter 11 Chiefly honey and spinning
Chapter 12 Spirit Mother, wizard stones
Chapter 13 Native battle and single combat
Chapter 14 Orien Belt and the Pleiades. The man curl or fire dance
Chapter 15 The Wheelow. (Curlew)
Chapter 16 Baaylet. (The Echo)
Chapter 17 Legend of Waitch and Coomal (emu and oppossum)
Chapter 18 Ceremonial Dance and Jonnock curl. The Legend of the Spirit fire.
Chapter 19 Story of Ter Ter and Cootup. The Blue bird and sparrow hawk.
Chapter 20 Legend of Waalegn and Chillian. The wedge tailed eagle and sea eagle.
Chapter 21 Waitch and Coorley. Emu and wild turkey
Chapter 22 Dalyar and Gudgilon. The parrots and hawks.
Chapter 23 Legend of Waarleck and Wording. (The wedge tailed eagle and black crow)
Chapter 24 Story of Norm and Cubine. (The black snake and mopoak)
Chapter 25 The Legend of the Flood...a trip to Esperance Bay in 1861
Chapter 26 The Woolgrum
Chapter 27 Chudic, Waitch, Coomal, Coolbardies and Towran (wild cat, emu, grey oppossum and ring neck parrot)
Chapter 28 Chitter Chitter and Cubbie Pinny Pinch. (Willy wagtail and friend Robin Redbreast)
Chapter 29 Younger and Maak. Omer and Younger. Kangaroo and the Moon, Brush Kangaroo and Kangaroo
Chapter 30 Carrah and Woolah. Red tail cockatoo and white tail cockatoo
Chapter 31 Account of ascent of Bluff Knoll. Beulah Meaul.

Includes Aboriginal song with personal names and English translation (page 107); vocabulary pages predominantly of bird names (pages 455-459)
Language
Australian languages, Nyaki Nyaki / Njaki Njaki language A1
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Description source

Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
General note

Microfilm : CY 1733, frames 1 - 320

AIATSIS language, code and map grid reference:
Nyaki Nyaki / Njaki Njaki people (A1) (WA SI50-04)
(accessed February 2014)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1054940
Signatures / Inscriptions

Inscribed on title page: "Events in this book took place about 1861 [only date mentioned Chapter 25]. Presented to Mitchell Library about 1910"
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Western Australia--Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians--Legends.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Names, Personal--Aboriginal Australian.
Aboriginal Australians--Names.
Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Vocabulary.
Aboriginal Australians--Western Australia--Languages.
Place
Esperance (W.A.)
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