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Bidwelli - from Tongai-Jimmy
Bidwelli 10
1 Class names - the tribal name
2 classes + locality
3 connubrium
4 Headman
5 Initiation
6 vocabulary
man - map - white man mŭminūga
woman - kŭrgŭt
head - tūdūk
eye - mé or minna
nose - kong
tongue - talling
ear - wring
hair of head - mŭnajākŭl
hand - brüt
thumb - yŭkan brüt
foot - jinnung
fire - mrüt
water - yaan
sun - nowŭn or wūrin
moon - yártin
my ialli
thy ningalung 11
his nungalung
my foot
one ko-teki
two - bolŭng
three - [bo - crossed out] bonglalandŭk
4 - bolŭng bolūng
5 - yotŭt
6 yotŭt
10 - bolŭng gū
20 bolūng ginnūng
Tongy - of Borumpa - at this side
Grandfather of Buchan mittung
Grandmother from Omeo
Father - born at Cann
Mother born at Buchan Gelantipy
[written in pencil - other father shot] my other father was shot at Cann
and two cousins - their mother of Bruthen
[of Bruthen - crossed out] Willy Bunjil's
father of Bondi and his mother
from Bega
Tongi's wife from Buroopa
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