Baiame in Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages
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…
- Record ID
- 3,945
- Year
- 1,875
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 3945
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages; William Ridley
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Baiame
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- New South Wales and Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
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- Publicness
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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, relate the following ancient traditions : — Baiame first made man at Murula, a mountain between the Barwan and the Narran Bivers. He formerly lived among men. And in the stony ridges between those two rivers there is a bole in the rock, shaped like a man, two or three times as large as a common man. In this, it is said,.
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