<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Margaret, I don’t know about kangaroo, but Dingo is definitely associated with law on Mornington Island. I will email you separately with more of the story.<div class="">Cassy<br class="">
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Apr 2020, at 11:06 am, Margaret Sharpe <<a href="mailto:msharpe3@une.edu.au" class="">msharpe3@une.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Hi all, I am wanting to find out if any of you have, for groups you know, evidence of a particular animal being regarded as the lawgiver for initiation. I know this is the red kangaroo in Ngalia in WA, and ‘old man kangaroo’
(i.e. the mature male Eastern Grey Kangaroo) in the Yugambeh-Bundjalung area. I have ascertained from John Bradley it is the dingo for the Yanyuwa, and understand that it is the red kangaroo from Bill Harney jnr. I am particularly interested in groups that
identify one of those large kangaroos as lawgiver, and what indications there are in the language of the connection with the initiand, as we have in these western and eastern areas. We can also include the Wardaman, and the dark clouds in the Milky Way identified
as the kangaroo and the hairbelt.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Because of bushfires and COVID-19 outbreaks, I did not do a trip to AIATSIS to see what else can be found or to hunt down any of you there. I contacted a couple of you, but got no further information. I am working on
a paper on this, which started from my astrophysics work. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Cheers from glorious self-imposed isolation in Armidale. Margaret<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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