ant
Language:
Australian:
Mong
English JS Main:
ant
English:
Black Ant Natural size / Native name Mong
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Black ant in profile with its head to the left, depicted standing on a base of grey to yellow wash overlaid with grey serpentine lines, casting a slight shadow to the left. The background is otherwise plain. The drawing is annotated in brown ink.
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: insects and spiders
Source:
Painters
Line:
12406
Respelt:
mung
Part of speech:
noun
Meaning Clue:
‘Mong’: mang = ‘Black Ant’: Painters [12406] [BB]
‘Mong’: mang = ‘Small brown ant’: Brown, Robert: Georges River [264.72:2] [DgR]
‘Mon’: man = ‘Any’ (ant): Anon [c:31:15] [BB]
‘muun’: mun = ‘ant (green)’: KAOL Ridley [20:18] [KML]
‘mu-un’: mun = ‘Greenheaded ant’: Mathews KML + Dwl 1903 [278.5:9] KML]
‘Moon’: mun = ‘Small black ant’: SofM 1900 05 21 [p.63: Tibbetts] [63:38] [WIRA]
Source Details:
INDIGENOUS NAMES IN WORKS BY THE PORT JACKSON PAINTER, THOMAS WATLING etc. Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London Transcribed by Keith V. Smith 2002
Watling, Thomas, 1762-1814?
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Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription.
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 406 : Black Ant, native name "Mong" / Port Jackson Painter]