club
Language:
Australian:
Woo da
English JS Main:
club
English:
club [similar to womara ng, but straighter, slimmer JS]====... aboriginal weapon, coloured brown with black linear decoration, .... long club with a darker knob and a flange or barb to the left, and a band of black diagonal lines at intervals along its length. ... a wooden sword with the handle to the left and decorated with a zig-zag pattern. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
weapons and parts
Sub-category:
club
Source:
Painters
Line:
12078.2
Respelt:
wu-da
Part of speech:
noun
Meaning Clue:
"Woo da" wuda = "club ..." club: Painters [::] [BB]
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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The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry.
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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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the page numbers entered by JS
Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 78: Aboriginal weapons and implements, "Wig goon, Womarang, Woo da" / Port Jackson Painter]