Baia-me in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages
had written, I heard of Baia-me from the Aborigines on the Namoi and Barwan. Many of them, when asked concerning any object, such as as the river, trees, sun, stars, &c, — who made these ? uniformly and readily replied " Baiame." And many of them have said to me in answer to questions about him, —…
- Record ID
- 2,068
- Year
- 1,875
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2068
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages; William Ridley
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Baia-me
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Kamilaroi country, NSW/QLD: B
- Source voice
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- Publicness
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had written, I heard of Baia-me from the Aborigines on the Namoi and Barwan. Many of them, when asked concerning any object, such as as the river, trees, sun, stars, &c, — who made these ? uniformly and readily replied " Baiame." And many of them have said to me in answer to questions about him, — as old King Bory of Gingi did in 1871, — " Kamil naia nummi Baiame ; naia winunulda (I have not seen Baiame ; I hear him)." In Pikumbul, Baiame is called Anambu, and by some Minumbu. The Wailwun blacks, according to Mr. Thomas Honery, of the Upper Hunter, who was brought up on the Barwan, and was familiarly acquainted with the tribe,.
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