Nganangan

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Gna.na.gna.na
English JS Main: 
Nganangan
English: 
[person, male]
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
21
Line: 
2
Respelt: 
Ngana ngana
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘gûanka-gûanka’ nganGa nganGa = ‘the very first’: Tkld AWA Lex [209:32] [AWA]
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 60: Back view. Possible profile of Balloderry. More likely Ngunga-ngunga COLLINS. Watling Drawing - no. 60: Portrait of "Gna.na.gna.na" / Port Jackson Painter --------------- ’Angan-angan’ might be ’(w)Angan-(w)angan’, and hence ’wonga-wonga’: pigeon