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pipeclay

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Taboa
English JS Main: 
pipeclay
English: 
White
Category: 
colour
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
411.3
Line: 
2
Respelt: 
dabuwa
Part of speech: 
noun adjective
Date: 
1792
Source Details: 
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy. Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.
Comment: 
‘the white clay with which the natives paint themselves is still in greater plenty. The Abbe le Receveur was of opinion, that this clay, if cleared from the sand, which might easily be separated, would make excellent porcelain’ [The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay by Arthur Phillip: Chapter XIII]

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