Aboriginal Culture

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Across
  1. 6. / A large flightless fast-running Australian bird resembling the ostrich, with shaggy grey or brown plumage, bare blue skin on the head and neck, and three-toed feet.
  2. 8. / believed to mean ‘village of the wild rose thorn’ but there is no further reference or identifying details or language.
  3. 11. / means ‘curlew’ in Margany language of Western Queensland.
  4. 14. / means ‘no go’ in unknown language/dialect from Central Queensland spoken by an Aboriginal man to Thomas Mitchell to stop him
  5. 15. / believed to mean Cypress Pine in local Barrungam language of Darling Downs.
  6. 17. BUDGANG / If they dance in front of you, swinging their tails and screeching, then bad times are coming your way. It could be something significant or merely the warning of an argument.
  7. 18. / means ‘possum’; language not recorded/unknown but possibly Dyirbal language of Far North Queensland.
  8. 19. / means ‘black waterhole’ in Gunggari language of South-West Queensland refers to the discolouration of water by eucalyptus leaves.
  9. 20. / named after local Aboriginal group Girramay of Far North Queensland.
  10. 21. / A curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that it INDOOROOPILLY / means ‘gully of leeches’ in Yuggera language of Brisbane. will return to the thrower, traditionally used by Australian Aborigines as a hunting weapon.
  11. 23. further north.
Down
  1. 1. / means ‘echidna’ in Gangulu language of Central Queensland.
  2. 2. / means ‘land of cloud’ in an unknown language, possibly Birri language of Central Queensland.
  3. 3. / means ‘dead or empty houses’ in Kabi Kabi language or
  4. 4. / A large plant-eating marsupial with a long powerful tail and strongly developed hindlimbs that enable it to travel by leaping, found only in Australia and New Guinea.
  5. 5. / Are the green and red type of brid. They mate for life, representing a relationship between a NAIN and a NGOWAL. In Dreaming, they share a connection with the WARRATAH plant, from where
  6. 7. / means ‘silver ash’ in Yidinj language of Far North Queensland.
  7. 9. / means dream in the Yugambeh language of South-East Queensland
  8. 10. AND Sunshine Coast.
  9. 12. / means ‘place of ooline timber’ in Gunggari language of South-West Queensland.
  10. 13. / believed to be taken from the local clan or group Bayali in Central Queensland.
  11. 16. hey got their colours. Warratah is significant because it represents magic.
  12. 22. ISLAND / means ‘clam’ in local Ngaro language of the Whitsundays.