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The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
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Nimmaylee is a porcupine with the spines coming; such an one having
been brought to the camp just as a girl was born, she became Nimmaylee.

The mothers, with native politeness, ask you to give their children
English names, but much mote often use in familiar conversation either
the Kumbo Bootha names, or others derived from place of birth, from
some circumstance connected with it, a child's mispronunciation of a
word, some peculiarity noticed in the child, or still more often they
call each other by the name proclaiming the degree of relationship.

For example, a girl calls the daughters of her mother and of her aunts
alike sisters.

Boahdee SISTER
Wambaneah FULL BROTHER
Dayadee HALF BROTHER
Gurrooghee UNCLE
Wulgundee UNCLE'S WIFE
Kummean SISTER'S SISTER
Numbardee MOTHER
Numbardee MOTHER'S SISTER
Beealahdee FATHER
Beealahdee MOTHER'S SISTERS' HUSBANDS
Gnahgnahdee GRANDMOTHER ON FATHER'S SIDE
Bargie GRANDMOTHER ON MOTHER'S SIDE
Dadadee GRANDFATHER ON MOTHER'S SIAE
Gurroomi A SON-IN-LAW, OR ONE WHO COULD BE A SON-IN-LAW
Goonooahdee A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, OR ONE WHO COULD BE A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
Gooleerh HUSBAND OR WIFE, OR ONE WHO MIGHT BE SO.

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