Tools, women's
iwarlirr���noun. large net string bag, made from irrkari. Inyimany inilatiny tuka iwarlirr. ‘He grabbed her and put her into his big net string bag.’ Category:�Tools, women's.
kararrgararr���noun. 1�•�an open pattern used in basket making. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�fine, soft, (fine hair), nylon. See:�alawiyalawi�‘star pattern used in table mats’. Category:�Hair, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kayaw���noun. twine basket for carrying sacred objects. Category:�Tools, women's.
kingarnimputa���tv. make, weave a basket (using a needle). Ngapi ngernimputa. ‘I am making a basket.’ Category:�Tools, women's.
kulangarna���noun. dillybag made of string. Anth: Made from Yirrkari. Used to carry yams and that type of thing. Category:�Tools, women's.
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.
kurut���noun. colour used to describe one colour that pandanus can be dyed. See:�kurrut�‘red clay’; karlwa�‘white clay’. Category:�Tools, women's, Colours and light.
majang���noun. open pattern dilly bag. Category:�Tools, women's.
malayangkari���noun. string carrying bag. Parang la awunilatiny mayalakarri ja karrkpin awunimany-kit warak kapa tuka kunak nuyu. ‘However he put them both in his big dillybag and carried them to where he was camping.’ Category:�Tools, women's.
manmarli���noun. 1�•�tree species, Paperbark type. Category:�Trees and bushes.
2�•�branch with hook on the end used to pull pandanus leaves down for basket making. Category:�Tools, women's.
coverb. hook out of. Kumanyi manmarli. ‘Hook it out of the water.’ Category:�Manipulation.
mardayin���noun. 1�•�the special dillybag from a ceremony. Anth: When a man has one and goes to get his promised wife then they must give her to him because that is a powerful dilly-bag. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�ceremony type. See:�lajkurrungu�‘Mardayin initiate’. Category:�General ritual. Anth: When the man wants to 'put up a dance' he sends the special stone and the dilly bag and then they come to dance. One mardayin comes from Elcho and another from Maningrida. If the dilly bag goes back to the place it comes from it has to be buried.
marruny1���noun. 1�•�Cabbage Palm types and some other palms, excluding coconuts and Pandanus. Gronophyllum ramsayi and possibly many more see pc field, Corypha elata. See:�irrgiyirrgi�‘Carpentaria acuminata, Gronophyllum ramsayi’; marlinkarrk�‘used for macrozamia it seems’; iwak�‘Livistona benthamii’; maruny�‘bandicoot’. Category:�Palms, Plant food.
2�•�basket made from the lower end of the palm frond of the cabbage palm. Category:�Tools, women's. Anth: This is waterproof and is used to carry water or wild honey
maygu���noun. 1�•�thick hair belt worn around the waist. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�a big woven floor mat or woven sail. See:�karrurru�‘sail’. Category:�Tools, women's, Items for fishing.
mayirrkpirrk���noun. grinding stone. See:�panjuk�‘grinding stone’. Category:�Tools, women's. Anth: Used to grind kurnpi, miyulum, warraka
mijikit���noun. mosquito net. Category:�Tools, women's.
muki���noun. 1�•�belly button, umbilical cord. Mampulalkungung nuyu mugi. ‘They cut his umbilical cord.’ Mamarlintuny mata muki ‘The bit of umbilical cord breaks off.’ See:�kalannyun�‘oyster type (used to cut umbilical cord)’; mamurrng�‘local ceremony’. Category:�Organs and torso. Anth: The small dilly bag with the bit of umbilical cord was often sent to a certain relative for them to keep. It was also sent in preparation for a mamurrng ceremony. Then later a child's father would get some shell from their country or bones of a fish they caught and send that for a mamurr ceremony. Now a bit of the child's first hair in beeswax is used.
2�•�shape of small spiral starter piece of a basket, yangali. This shape is perfectly round whereas ilarranypany is elongated. See:�ilarranypany�‘elongated starter spiral for basket’. Category:�Tools, women's. Anth: The name refers only to the initial few layers of coils that are made to start off the basket.
murwala���noun. 1�•�pandanus. This term is used for Beach Pandanus and River Pandanus. Pandanus spiralis, Pandanus aquaticus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Murhala. La ja murgala ta amajung tuka kirrwara la tuka kumpil pata arrarrkpi la warramumpik la marryun. Iwulalkungung ja murgala kayirrk la iwumarlkujpangung kirrk. Iwutpangung tuka muwarn ingalangung kirrk. Warrwak la awuntuwunyantung tuka kirrwara la tuka kumpil. ‘They used pandanus when men and women and boys were sick in the back or the chest. They would first cut down the pandanus and then pound it up (the stem). Next they would put it out in the sun to dry it out. Then they would warm their backs and chests with it.’ Nuka ja rrurulng ja kapin yalarranypany. Malany ilijap. malany kinila murgala. ‘The rrurulng is like a centipede. It is small and it eats pandanus.’ Mularn kawani tuka murgala kapa Weyirra la kani Martpalk arlarrarr. Awuntuwung kirrk. ‘Mice live in the pandanus trees on North Goulburn Island, but not here at Martpalk. They killed them all.’ See:�aparlmurrka�‘Stone country Pandanus’; karlngirr�‘pandanus nut’; imiyingkarl�‘prepared pandanus leaves’; karlawijiwiji�‘soft part of pandanus stem’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food, Medicine. Anth: Used to treat joint pain. Preparation: chop centre of trunk, take skin off and chop in half. Beat until soft. Leave to dry for 1-2 hours and heat in fire. Place Pandanus on sore joints.
2�•�pandanus prepared for working baskets. Anth: The pandanus is prepared by soaking it and then splitting the leaves into two parts called kirrwara and imiyingkarl. Kinypani kingilpa murwala. ‘She is sitting splitting pandanus.’ Category:�Tools, women's. See:�kirrwara.
nganyjalun���noun. a piece of wood on which food is ground, the plate part. See:�nganyumparrga�‘pestle’. Category:�Tools, women'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.’
paltak���noun. 1�•�biting bag, used in anger and fights. Anth: A little round bag with cotton wool inside, used to bite while fighting. See:�kanilakpanpun�‘have full cheeks, be chewing on some food, bite tongue or a biting bag’. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�Daisy Bates type of hat, because it looks like a biting bag upside down. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
panjuk���noun. grinding stone held in hand when crushing or pounding vegetable food. See:�mayirrkpirrk�‘grinding stone’; panjutpanjut�‘dancers get close to the musicians’. Category:�Tools, women's.
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.
wawaj���noun. digging stick made from irrilga tree or kartungkun ironwood tree. See:�walamurru�‘digging stick’. Category:�Tools, women's.
wurlungunngun���noun. a net dillybag used to gather yams in that is made from string. See:�wurlngun�‘small periwinkle’. Category:�Tools, women's.
yangali���noun. basket, dilly bag. Generic and also used for large baskets made from pandanus, with or without handles. Yangali nuwurnyak irwu/iwu. ‘A basket with a handle.’ Category:�Tools, women's.
yulmarr���noun. bone needle. Category:�Tools, women's.
yumparljumparl���noun. walking stick. Category:�Tools, women's.
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