mourner

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
moobee
English JS Main: 
mourner
English: 
A Moobee ornamented after a Burial with a Club or great size over the shoulder
Category: 
human classification
Sub-category: 
ceremonial
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
28
Line: 
10
Respelt: 
mubi
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
"moobee" mubi = "A Moobee ornamented after a Burial with a Club or great size over the shoulder" mourner : Smith & Wheeler [:28:10] [BB]
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 45