Bunjil
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Bunjil” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 15
- Public sources
- 2
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1880–1904
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Public records
- Bunjil in Tales and Beliefs#1433But if a man only killed enough game, or procured enough other food for himself, his wife, and children, then he need not divide with others; but if he found that his father had no food, he would give them what he had…
- Bunjil in Tales and Beliefs#1432As an illustration of the way in which such names may be acquired, I may mention the following. The Mitchell River flows for some thirty miles through a gorge-like and somewhat inaccessible valley. In order to examine i…
- Bunjil in Tales and Beliefs#1431Among the names of such men known to me are Bunjil-barlajan (platypus), from his skill in spearing that animal; Bunjil-tambun (Gippsland perch, Lates Colonorum), from his skill in catching that fish. A leading man in th…
- Bunjil in Tales and Beliefs#1430When a Kurnai has arrived at mature age, and when he may be supposed to have taken his place among the elders of the clan, and was designated Boldain or old man, he usually acquired a new name. As the child's name gave…
- Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies#1321a akin to them, as speaking a dialect of the same language, on the Lower Loddon River in Victoria. On the Victorian side of the Murray the sequence of tribes, having the two-class system with the names Mukwara and Kilpa…
- Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies#1320the mountain side, until at another little level a third halt was made. Here the second stage was marked by all the men rubbing themselves with powdered charcoal, making themselves almost unrecognisable. The use of powd…
- Bunjil in Legends#1314Supernatural Being (Bunjil).—Make exaggerated sign for old man, then make exaggerated sign for "big," then point to the sky (Wurunjerri). Similar gestures are made by the Murring.
- Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies#1303I have spoken before of the sequence of the groups of tribes along the course of the Murray River from Wentworth upwards. I need not again enumerate them, but merely point out that the Ta-tathi are situated farthest dow…
- Bunjil in Initiation Ceremonies#1296From here we marched slowly up the mountain side, until at another little level a third halt was made. Here the second stage was marked by all the men rubbing themselves with powdered charcoal, making themselves almost…
- Bunjil in Eaglehawk and Crow#1585Government of New South Wales in 1852 or 1853, and cited by Mr. Curr.|| The tradition is that the first black man on the Darling had two wives, Kilparra and Mokwarra. The sons of the one married the daughters of the oth…
- Bunjil in Eaglehawk and Crow#1584ers. At King George * Genesis, xlix. t Daniel, vii. 3. + Isaiah, li. 9. § " Kamilroi and Kurnai," p. 288. II " The Australian Race," vol. ii. p. 165. 18 i:agli:iia\\ K and cuow Sound, among a connnunity of the Meenung b…
- Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1613equivalent to the baukan of the Kurnai. A Westernport blackfellow once told me that Tungil was an old man wlio lived in the mountains at the sources of the Yarra river, where he possessed great numbers of cattle. We hav…
- Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1612s of his clan, and was designated " boldain," he acquired a new name. The designation which he received as a child became his " secret name " when he received a new one at initiation, and this again often gave way to so…
- Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1605hey expected was that the victim, where- ever he might be, should rise and walk to them in a trance — "like it * Named from the barn — the casuarina. Two varieties occur — one, C. sithero^a, having an erect, and the oth…
- Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1604ne to a division. For instance, of the last Birraarks one belonged to each of the following places: — Wurnungatti (Kroatun), Bruthen (Brabia), Bunjil Kraura (Braiaka), Bimjil Nellting (Braiaka), Dairgo (Brabra), Delin (…