Tools, men's
alijalij���noun. harpoon shaft. Alijalij karryutpa ja ingarakpin karryen ja inyarlgan. ‘We put the harpoon into the spear shaft and spear the turtle.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
anjirla���noun. spear (generic). arrkarl yuranka manimany anjirla inirrkjiny tuka [wamuwun]. ‘Arrkarl (Saltwater Longtom) came with his spear, he speared that coral.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
apan���noun. spear shaft. Mata apan algaj rlama. ‘The spear shaft has a shovel spear point.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
arawirr1���noun. 1�•�hollow log or tree, either alive or dead. Category:�General terms.
2�•�didgeridoo. Muka mata arawirr. ‘This is a didgeridoo.’ See:�arawirrarawirr�‘Worm Snail’. Category:�Tools, men's, Song and dance.
artakamul���noun. short throwing stick used to hit magpie geese when out hunting. Kawa Iliwan kiwuwun manimunak artakamul. ‘They are catching magpie geese with a throwing stick at Iliwan.’ See:�namalurru�‘geese hunting stick’. Category:�Tools, men's.
ikarna���noun. fighting club, made from the same tree as murrkarn but different. Kunuka yirrikawk miyarwu mampumajpungkunyka, ikarna, wartpiwartpi alaj iwuwuning. ‘The brought all sorts of weapons specially for fighting like miyarwu sticks and ikarna clubs and wartpiwartpi sticks and hit him with them.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
ikpiny���noun. traditional torch used to fish by night, made by tying up walurru bark with munmunka vine. Jitapa mampu mampuyirrantung like muka pata bark nuka, ikpin. ‘Jit, they would light those bark torches.’ Iwuwutangung make like candle, light mampungulangung, yungku mampuwarawning, iwuwutangung ikpin ‘They would tie it up and make like a candle, they made a light, lit the fire and made an ikpin torch.’ See:�magarnpa�‘burning stick used as a torch’; wulurru; irraj. Category:�Tools, men's, Fire.
ilatjilat���noun. Crinum lily. Crinum augustifolium, Crinum uniflorum. Variant:�Iwaidja: Marldarrajwajbarldarraj (C. uniflorum). Walurru iwulartpantung. ‘They used to smear it on to Stringbark (paintings).’ See:�yalamari�‘tree orchid’. Category:�Small plants, Supernatural, Tools, men's. Anth: If it is immersed in water it will bring rain and lightning. The inside of the round root has a glue-like substance used as a binding agent in bark painting.
irraj���noun. torch made from paperbark. See:�maryawu�‘paperbark tree’; ikpiny�‘Stringybark torch’. Category:�Tools, men's.
irtakayi���noun. an old fashioned wooden-pronged spear similar to a fishing spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
iwijiwij���noun. 1�•�nose plug. Either the one worn in the nose or the one used to plug a dugong's nose so it will die quickly. See:�keport�‘pandanus nose plug’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Tools, men's.
2�•�wooden needle. Used to sew up wilam 'bark canoe'. Anth: Used by dreamtime awungirrkpung to sew up stone in legend. See:�marrapirnta�‘pierced nasal septum’. Category:�Tools, men's.
iyigi���noun. 1�•�his tooth. ngayigi ‘1sg.POSS.tooth’; nujigi ‘2sg.POSS.tooth’; ninyjigi ‘3FE.POSS.tooth’; wuyigi ‘crack in ground (Capell 1956:41)’; mayigi ‘stone.spear ; crab.claw.for.smoking ; fishing.hook ; splinter of wood’; atjigi ‘roasted crushed shells used as special 'sand' for cooking kuli yam together with a special tree’; wiyigi ‘3pl.POSS.teeth’. Category:�Head.
2�•�axehead, tomahawk head, knife head, shovel spear head. Category:�Tools, men's.
jalakaraj���noun. pronged fishing spear. Iwumany ja jalakaraj. ‘They took a spear.’ Kiningula jalakaraj ‘He is making a fishing spear.’ Naka ja jalakaraj la pukijuku. ‘That is a jalakaraj spear and a pukijuku spear.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
jumpirlang���noun. spear type. Category:�Tools, men's.
juwang���noun. large axe head. Variant:�Said to be ngurtikin word. See:�waliman�‘axe’. Category:�Tools, men's.
kalumang���noun. plank, flat board or surface. Category:�Tools, men's.
karligarli���noun. throwing stick. Category:�Tools, men's.
karlpu���noun. round ended spear thrower, used with four-pronged fish spear. See:�worntok�‘spear thrower’. Category:�Tools, men's.
karramalk���noun. stone tomahawk. See:�tatken�‘stone axe’; waliman�‘axe’. Category:�Tools, men's.
kiniwarrajpun���tv. roll plant material on leg to make string or rope. Kayirrk la warrwak angkuwarrajpuning. ‘Then they rolled it on their leg.’ Category:�Manipulation, Tools, men's.
kingarakpin���noun. harpoon. Category:�Tools, men's.
kingarakpin walamurru���noun. iron point of harpoon. Category:�Tools, men's.
kunkarlk���noun. 1�•�tree type. Premna serratifolia. Variant:�Iwaidja: Girdbu. See:�kunkarrk�‘Chinese Fingernail clam’; purl�‘light fire with firesticks’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: tree from which upright firestick is obtained
2�•�upright part of fire stick. Category:�Tools, men's, Fire.
kupa���noun. 1�•�one-pronged fish spear used by children. Category:�Tools, men's.
2�•�iron-pointed digging stick. Syn:�walamurru. Category:�Tools, women's.
lorrkon���noun. 1�•�ceremony for the burial of bones. Category:�Mourning.
2�•�burial pole used in lorrkon ceremony. Category:�Tools, men's.
rlama���noun. shovel spear. See:�kinilalku�‘cut’. Category:�Tools, men's.
rlawk���noun. stone spear head. Anth: The 'blacksmith' used to heat the special stone and crack it and then it was ready. The mines used to be Wajpi and Wungarnpa. See:�tatken�‘stone axe’. Syn:�mankik. Category:�Tools, men's.
magarnpa���noun. 1�•�fishing line. Syn:�wakij. See main entry: igarnpa. See:�ikpiny�‘traditional torch type’; magarnpa wularr�‘tree roots’. Category:�Items for fishing.
2�•�burning stick taken from the fire and used as a torch. Anth: Not specifically made to be a torch like ikpiny. Category:�Tools, men's.
magarrij���noun. butt end of a spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
mak���noun. message stick. Category:�Tools, men's, General ritual.
mankararr���noun. a piece of wood situated inside a didgeridoo. Mata mankararr mata kamawani wukej tuka arawirr. ‘The mankararr is situated inside the didgeridoo.’ See:�nganykarrarr�‘mangroves’. Category:�Tools, men's.
mankawurr���noun. a stick from the manjarrpirn tree used as straw to suck honey. Category:�General terms, Tools, men's. Anth: a twig end is chewed into a brush and used to suck honey
mankik���noun. stone spearhead. Category:�Tools, men's.
mankole���noun. 1�•�Bamboo. Bambusa arnhemica. Variant:�Iwaidja: Alidjbularr or Arnarnar. See:�Yarnawu�‘bamboo’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�bamboo spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
mangkarrkpinji���noun. spear type. Category:�Tools, men's.
mangkirrk���noun. spear type. Category:�Tools, men's.
mayigi���noun. 1�•�stone spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
2�•�crab claw for smoking. Category:�Tools, men's.
3�•�fishing hook. See main entry: iyigi. Category:�Items for fishing.
miyarwu���noun. long stick designed for fighting that was broad and flat at one end like a shovel. Kunuka yirrikawk miyarwu mampumajpungkunyka, ikarna, wartpiwartpi alaj iwuwuning. ‘The brought all sorts of weapons specially for fighting like miyarwu sticks and ikarna clubs and wartpiwartpi sticks and hit him with them.’ See:�wartpiwartpi�‘fighting stick’. Category:�Tools, men's.
miyarrurl���noun. a fighting stick shaped like a fish at the end. See:�narut�‘surgeon fishes’. Category:�Tools, men's. Anth: Ngurtikin, Mangarnawal, and Marryalayala people used it. Note: Berndt and Berndt (1970) say the razor-sharp sides of the Narut fish is copied in making these fighting sticks.
murnta���noun. 1�•�clothing. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�a play spear with blunted end used by young boys. Puka pata marryun kawarnakanyjilin mata murnta. Kutpunayanti! ‘The boys are playing with the murnta spears. Look at them!’ Category:�Tools, men's.
murrkarn���noun. fighting club. Marnti kunpu murrkarn. ‘I might hit you with a club.’ Anth: Different to ikarna but made from the same wood. Category:�Tools, men's.
namalurru���noun. stick used for hitting down geese. Arrkpana arrkanalalku mata namalurru ngartu. ‘Let's go and cut my namalurru stick.’ Anth: The hunter sits in an observation post (jalngarr) in a tree. Another man at the bottom picks up the geese. The namalurru stick is cut and heated over a fire to strengthen it before use. See:�artakamul�‘short throwing stick used to hit magpie geese’. Category:�Tools, men's.
nawanpal���noun. 1�•�wide. See main entry: nuwanpal. Category:�Size and weight.
2�•�one of two main bones in a turtle's arm. Category:�Reptiles and amphibians.
3�•�large flat type of clapsticks. See:�nganangka�‘clapsticks’; palapala�‘large flat surface’. Category:�Tools, men's, Play, perform, joke. Anth: The large flat clapstick is also referred to as nigi while the smaller one is malijpakpak.
ngalkuruk���noun. 1�•�a song to let people know that the Wuwarr ceremony has arrived. Category:�General ritual, Play, perform, joke. Anth: Two men take it to the places involved to call the people to the central gathering place.
2�•�the stick which the men used to carry with them to tell people of the Wuwarr ceremony. Category:�General ritual, Tools, men's.
nganangka���noun. clap sticks. Nawurlany anpana annganangula ngartu nganangka nuyu nganamirawn ngarrurru. ‘Nawurlany, go and make some clapsticks so that I can sing for us.’ See:�nawanpal�‘wide’. Category:�Tools, men's.
nganyumparrga���noun. 1�•�wild cotton. See:�kapaja�‘plant that makes cotton wool’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Anth: In the early days people used to collect it for the mission to make pillows.
2�•�pestle that people used to use it to grind food and nuts. See:�nganyjalun�‘wooden plate for grinding’; walurru�‘stringybark tree’. Category:�Tools, women's, Cooking. Anth: It was made from Walurru 'stringbark'.
3�•�camping firestick, torch. See:�mayirli�‘Banksia dentata’. Category:�Tools, men's. Naka mata yungku yiwulakpalunyang awarrangung mantanti. ‘That's the light that they used to take with them when they went to the mainland.’
ngarrkijpa���noun. many pronged spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
papurli���noun. carrying pole, or straight young tree. Category:�Tools, men's.
coverb. Restrict:�MA object 1�•�carry home by threading on spear or metal pole. Ta katja kiyap ta karrima imurra naka karriwun papurli. ‘When we go fishing to carry a lot we string them together on a pole, wire.’ See:�wirrirri�‘string together’. Category:�Manipulation, Arrangement.
2�•�walk with pole or spear over shoulder with fish strung on it. Kurryena wirrirri ja kiyap ngarrurru la kutjanyji papurli ngarrurru. ‘String our fish together and take them (back) strung together.’ Category:�Manipulation.
pirlmet���noun. type of shovel spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
pukijuku���noun. two-pronged wooden spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
purluk���noun. wool used for ceremonial purposes. Category:�General ritual, Tools, men's.
rrapi���noun. 1�•�file. Category:�Other.
2�•�rough part of a stingray's back. Category:�Fish bodyparts, Tools, men's. Anth: Used to be cut out and tied onto a flat stick. It was then dried out and used to file wood smooth eg. in making of spear shafts, heads, barbs and pipes.
tatken���noun. stone axe. See:�karramalk�‘stone tomahawk’; rlawk�‘stone spearhead’; waliman�‘axe’. Category:�Tools, men's. Anth: The stone axe is featured in a traditional story on why there are two Goulburn Islands. It was this type of axe that the crow (Wurakak) used to chop down the tree.
walamurru���noun. 1�•�iron pointed digging stick. Ngayirnparrki ngaw walamurru. ‘I think she is a dear (digging with) digging stick (for yams).’ See:�wawaj�‘digging stick’; kupa�‘fish spear used by children’. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�iron point on harpoon. Kingarakpin walamurru. ‘Iron point of harpoon.’ Kingarakpin walamurru karryen inyarlgan. ‘We harpoon turtles with an ironpointed harpoon.’ Category:�Tools, men's.
waliman���noun. axe. Name means a tomahawk sized axe but is often used for a larger axe. It can be used for any type of axe but can also be used to mean a metal axe, not a stone axe. See:�tatken�‘stone axe’; karramalk�‘stone tomahawk’; juwang�‘large axe head’. Category:�Tools, men's, Other.
wartpiwartpi���noun. long stick designed for fighting. Kunuka yirrikawk miyarwu mampumajpungkunyka, ikarna, wartpiwartpi alaj iwuwuning. ‘The brought all sorts of weapons specially for fighting like miyarwu sticks and ikarna clubs and wartpiwartpi sticks and hit him with them.’ See:�kiniwartpi�‘make trouble with’; miyarwu�‘long stick designed for fighting’. Category:�Tools, men's.
wirrgala���noun. throwing stick, boomerang. Category:�Tools, men's. Anth: Not used for hunting by Mawng people, only used for playing music, like clapsticks
worntok���noun. 1�•�spear thrower used to throw shovel spears, rlama. See:�karlpu�‘round ended spear thrower’. Category:�Tools, men's. Anth: It is very pretty and is often carved.
2�•�dugong tail, or tail of dolphin or whale. Category:�Mammals.
yalamari���noun. tree orchid. Dendrobium affine, Cymbidium canaliculatum, Geodorum neocalendonicum?. Yalamari ja kernti tuka warlk. ‘Orchids can grow up in a tree.’ See:�ilatjilat�‘also used as a fixative for paintings’. Category:�Small plants, Tools, men's. Anth: Used as a 'glue' for bark paintings. It is pounded on a rock and then put on the bark before it is painted. It makes the paint stick.
yalawan���noun. spear type. Category:�Tools, men's.
yalawurn���noun. spear barbs. Category:�Tools, men's.
yangkarlpinji���noun. fighting spear. Category:�Tools, men's.
yarnawu���noun. 1�•�bamboo that grows in freshwater on the mainland. Phragmites karka. Variant:�Iwaidja: Yarnawu. See:�mankole�‘bamboo’. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�a type of spear on the mainland. It has a sharp end, no wire and is light in weight. It is used for hunting kangaroo or wallaby, or for fighting. Category:�Tools, men's.
yuku���noun. spear type. Category:�Tools, men's.
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