knee
Language:
Australian:
Bunaah
English JS Main:
knee
English:
knee
Category:
body parts and products
Sub-category:
limbs
Source:
SofM 18960912 [13.5: Fulton BB]
Page:
13.5
Line:
7
Respelt:
bana
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1801
Meaning Clue:
‘BunŸng’ bunang = ‘Knee’: Dawes [b:39:2.2] [BB]
‘BundŸng’ bu-ndŸng= ‘Knee’: Dawes [b:39:2.1] [WOODS]
‘Boodu-gang’ budu-gang = ‘The knee’: Lang: N.S.W. Vocabulary, c.1840 [2:39] [DG?]
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‘pundai’ bundai = ‘Knee’: Mathews 1904 [225.4:50] [NYMBA]
Source Details:
Science of Man:12 September 1896, pp. 12-13.
The SofM (Australasian Anthropological Journal) list is headed: ‘Obtained by Rev. H. Fullow [sic] in 1801 A.D., from Aboriginals in Norfolk Island.’
The item consists of about 7 lists:
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"1. D.D.B. of Dubbo WIRA (32:148)
"2. J.J.B. of Narrandera WIRA (34:146)
"3. J.C.W. Dialect north of Darling
"4. Another dialect of Kamilaroi Kamilaroi
"5. Rev. H. Fullow [sic"for ’Fulton’] Sydney
"6. J.C.C. Coombyngura tribe, Clarence to Bellingen Rivers
"7. A.T.M., from the Brewarrana tribe Wailwan (29.5:146.5)
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Henry Fulton was a member of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's committee for the Native Institution at Parramatta.
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Lois Carrington (1983/1992) found a Fulton MS presumably of this word list, which she dated to 1800. However, Fulton arrived Norfolk Island in 1801 (see ADB 1:421). Mentioned in Troy, J. 1992 The Sydney Language Notebook, p. 145, 8.
[This looks like a corrupted or not well transcribed version of the Sydney language with perhaps mistakes in transcription from manuscript to print.]
* Unable to find articles by Lois Carrington
From K. Smith.
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See also the similar (original) list in the Norfolk Island Births, Deaths and marriages register.
JS LIST LOCATION: Word List A-L ringbinder; also lime green SofM ringbinder
Comment:
Yidinj: ‘bungGu’: Dixon’s knee-wave-snake bend-boomerang bend story [2002:57-58] Means, he said, propulosion for whole body [cf banga??]