amsd_00993

Title: A reference to the absence of message sticks among the Bidhawal

Description: Curr's informant is not specified. He writes "Mr. Howitt, in the work just referred to, sets down the Gippsland tribes as five in number, but it seems probable that there were more, as I have received from Mr. Bulmer the vocabulary of a tribe which dwelt at Omeo." (p. 539) "Message-sticks were not in use." (p.549) It is most likely that the five Gipplsand tribes are Nulit, Kurnai, Muk-Thang, Thangguai and Bidhawal. The language spoken at Omeo is Dhudhuroa, but it is not included in this number.

Item type: negative text reference

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Bidhawal Austlang: S49 - Bidawal Glottolog: gana1268

Sources:

Curr, Edward M. 1887. The Australian race: Its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent. 5 vols. Vol. 3. Melbourne: John Ferres.

Source types: book

URL source 1: https://archive.org/details/cu31924026093835/page/n553

Data Entry: Piers Kelly