10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIDJEE»
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1
Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales
Wooden spear-heads barbed on one side only, callod Gidjee, &c. Western
Australia. 5. Well-shaped, rounded, and pointed polished heads of greenstone. (
Smyth, Loc. cit. I, p. 309, f. 87), North Australia (" Far North.") * Aborigines of
Victoria ...
Geological Survey of New South Wales, 1892
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Official catalogue of the Museum of Artillery in the ...
These instruments are used for throwing spears, the end of which rests against
the hook. 118. One carved womera from the northern part of Western Australia. D
119-22. Four light spears with hardwood points called gidjee, used in fishing.
Sir J. H. (John Henry) Lefroy, 1864
3
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and ...
... method of representing the stone chip spear or ' gidjee,' the stone knife,
boomerang, and the attitudes of the corroboree dance, are identical. There is
also a close similarity in other points. The Australian drawings which have been
explained ...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great ...
Great Australian Bight to Grampians in Victoria ; (4) Wooden spearheads barbed
on one side only, called Gidjee, &c, Western Australia ; (5) Well shaped, rounded,
and pointed polished heads of greenstone, North Australia." " Archiv fur ...
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and ...
... Moon-dee Moondee gurraug, gurrang boola : Mir-ga-na, Mir-ga-na gurrang,
gurrang boola : Yal-gon-ga, Yal-gon-ga, gurrang, gurrang boola ; yarn bal? Buck-
il-bury Wattup gidjee, yam bal gurrang boola ? Bun-bury gurrang, gurrang boola.
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Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and ...
... yongar Perth bak-ad-jee yuado — Moon -dee Moondee gurrang, gurrang
boola : Mir-ga-na, Mir-ga-na gurrang, gurrang boola : Yal-gon-ga, Yal-gon-ga,
gurrang, gurrang boola ; yarn bal ! Buck-il-bury Wattup gidjee, yam bal gurrang
boola ?
7
The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place ...
... can shake their belief in them. Pitcheree, he continues, is used for chewing. It is
prepared by the plant being reduced to powder, and mixed with the ashes of
gidjee leaves, and produces, says my informant, a sort of mild intoxication. No
sort ...
Edward Micklethwaite Curr, 1886
8
Dictionary of Hard Words
... [also spelt jibe, gybe] dsaib. giber «. one who utters gibes [also spelt jiber] 'dsai
-baz. giblet n. (trimming from a fowl, as the heart, gizzard, neck, etc.) 'dsiblat.
giddea n. acacia [synenymous cegnates gidya, gydya, gidgee, gidjee] 'gidi-a. gig
n.
Robert Morris Pierce, 1910
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The Shadows of Horses: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
The other one was drafted by the overseer, a big dark-brown filly called Gidjee.
Under Mr Ellis's eye, we had to mount in the round yard and canter out into a
holding paddock. There was never much grass in that paddock; the gibber stone
...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and ...
The conventional method of representing the stone chip spear or ' gidjee,' the
stone knife, boomerang, and the attitudes of the corroboree dance, are identical.
There is also a close similarity in other points. The Australian drawings which
have ...
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1899
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GIDJEE»
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Wedge-tailed eagles restrict their flights to clearly defined 'home …
Mr Cherriman said the tracking also showed that the adults, named Wallu and Gidjee, restricted their flights to their home ranges, an area that ... «ABC Online, Dec 14»
Scientist tracks eagles soaring to incredible heights
Wallu, Gidjee and Kuyurnpa are the three birds tracked so far, and they've produced some exciting results. The youngest bird, Kuyurnpa, has ... «ABC Local, Jul 14»
Biologist discovers wedge-tailed eagles fly more than six kilometres …
The birds - Wallu, Gidjee and Kuyurnpa - were given names from the Aboriginal Martu language, which comes from the desert region where the ... «ABC Online, Jul 14»
