3

Omeo
graves p 3, 6
Bulmer’s letters
Helms

Omeo Tribe (Including notes by Mr Bulmer
on various tribes)

The Theddora +c 1,5-, 10- Medicine men 1 4 Bullroarer 1 Fight with Kurnai 2
Kidney fat 2 Magic weapon 2, Burial 3 Number of tribe in 1844 22- (4)
Items 5 marriage 5 Headmen 5 Initiation 5 – Sky 5
The Aurora – exchange of wives 6 10 Elopement 10-22
Per Richard Helms
Headman 22 – Set fights 22 – Tribal boundaries 22-
Messengers 22 – Initiation 23 24 Sexual license of “Wahu” 24
Betrothal to marriage 24 – polygamy 24 exchange of sisters 24 25
Loan of wife to brother 25 wifes mother 25 punishment for illegal intercourse 25
Burning hair of girl 25 Bogong moths 26 Kidney fat 26 Death 26
Burial 26 ghosts leaving grave +c 27

Mr Bulmer says Jenny Cooper re elopement 13 re [?? ??], 13 overleaf
Eloping – punishment from in Maneroo 14 A (per “Old Steele?)
Re Murray Jack – [?inside horn?] to escape from enemies 18
Re Birararks 19 Mrarts – dreams – Old Mary’s dreams 20 - Murray Blacks dreams 20
"Old Jamieson"
Banget Baru 20 ghosts walking Old Candle King Tom (Snowy River) Kurlip Tom p. 21
Old Gingers ghost at Lake Tyers 21A ghosts found 21 A
Mararts of animals 21A (search Kurnai file)

Note Bulmer re Wembaio tribe p 6 marriage 6 Elopement 6
Betrothal of infant girl 7 Elopement 7 capture of woman 7 plurality of wives 7
Reason for plurality of wives 7 Exchange of wives 7 9 also travel calamities 7