Violet Snail
Language:
Australian:
Boala
English JS Main:
Violet Snail
English:
"This seems to Mr. White to be a species of the Nautilus / The reticulated net work is thin & transparent & is distended / from the Shell by the interior air. Perhaps it is truly pictured / by the bubbles children blow from a pipe. The liquor in the / Shell is a most beauteous purple and Stains linen that colour / but on paper it appears a lightish blue, the drawing / represents perfectly the back and foresides, the shell of / a natural size", and at bottom centre "Native name Boala".
Category:
fauna: marine and aquatic life
Source:
Painters
Line:
12398
Respelt:
båwa-la
Part of speech:
noun
Meaning Clue:
bumi’ = ‘To breathe’: King in Hunter [407.1:11];
’buwa’ = ’to blow’
’buwa-mi-ya’ = ’Blow with ye breath’: [c:30:17];
’buwa-lá’ = ’blow it’ [deduced]: [b:31:13.1]
buwi = to kiss;
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. 398 : Two views of a mollusk, native name "Boala" ; Thomas Watling]