snake
Language:
Australian:
Mal-leˆ
English JS Main:
snake
English:
[Diamond python] Snake, native name "Mal-lea" ---The upper parts of the body is brown with black stripes overlaid with a black linear diamond pattern and pale yellow to fawn coloured spots. The underparts are pale yellow with pale grey-brown stripes. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: reptiles
Source:
Painters
Line:
12367
Respelt:
maliya
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. 367 : Snake, native name "Mal-lea" / Thomas Watling] . . .
(K.A. Hindwood (1970:21-222) remarked that some PJP/ Watling animal names have two Indigenous names which he believed indicated a different 'tribal' dialect. Examples Goo-lung-ag-ga/Deroo-guan - Red-browed Finch; Irra-won-nang/Dar-rung - Black-backed magpie)