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Baia-me in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages

YEAR: 1875
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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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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
Index status: Archive detail (not indexed)

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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
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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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