amsd_02147

Title: Term for 'message stick' in Dalabon

Description: Original source gloss:"mak3 n. Message stick

♦ Kanh mak, mak yale-yin, Dalabon- walüng ngey-no, nunh, bula-dulh-kinjinjyi, nunh yirrü-boyenj, yibung mah wongke-no mak bülah-dulh-kinjinjyi nunh kah-mon, nunh kah-yirru-di.

That message stick, what we call mak as its Dalabon name, they used to burn (marks on) a stick, when there was a big fight, to make a treaty they would burn marks on a message stick, then it was O.K., there was no fighting.

[Phon: Vowel is usually long.]

Item type: lexical item

Sources:

Evans, Nicholas, Francesca Merlan, and Maggie Tukumba. 2004. A first dictionary of Dalabon (Ngalkbon). Maningrida, N.T.: Maningrida Arts and Culture.

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Data Entry: Piers Kelly