mouse
Language:
Australian:
Mirrin
English JS Main:
mouse
English:
"Native Name Mirrin / The Penes and Testacles made visible. The former placed between the latter and the anus. This / Animal I cut out of a fallen Rotten tree, into which my Dog drove it." ====Mammal in profile, facing to the left, depicted standing on its back legs on a fallen tree branch and leaning its front legs against a tree trunk. The mammal is brown overlaid with black and grey hatched lines, with white underparts. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: rodents
Source:
Painters
Line:
12083
Respelt:
mi-rin
Part of speech:
noun
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. 83 : Marsupial, "Native name Mirrin" / Port Jackson Painter]