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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Margaret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It is the whale Luma Luma up the south coast- it will be the animal that is the main food supply (or assisting in food supply? – dingo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Cat Kutay</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Margaret Sharpe <msharpe3@une.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 2 April 2020 at 10:36 am<br>
<b>To: </b>"r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au" <r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[RNLD] Animals regarded as lawgiver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Cheers from glorious self-imposed isolation in Armidale. Margaret</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">0428 668 988</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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