Aboriginal Culture

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Across
  1. 1. 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 downs.hey got their colours. Warratah is significant because it represents magic.
  2. 3. means ‘no go’ in unknown language/dialect from Central Queensland spoken by an Aboriginal man to Thomas Mitchell to stop him going further north
  3. 6. means ‘curlew’ in Margany language of Western Queensland.
  4. 7. means ‘silver ash’ in Yidinj language of Far North Queensland.
  5. 9. 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.
  6. 11. 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.
  7. 14. believed to mean Cypress Pine in local Barrungam language of Darling Downs.
  8. 16. means dream in the Yugambeh language of South-East Queensland
  9. 18. means ‘land of cloud’ in an unknown language, possibly Birri language of Central Queensland.
  10. 20. believed to be adapted from local Wakka Wakka word for ‘wild limes’.
  11. 21. named after local Aboriginal group Girramay of Far North Queensland.
Down
  1. 2. means ‘black waterhole’ in Gunggari language of South-West Queensland refers to the discolouration of water by eucalyptus leaves.
  2. 4. means ‘dead or empty houses’ in Kabi Kabi language or redcliffe and Sunshine Coast.
  3. 5. means ‘clam’ in local Ngaro language of the Whitsundays.
  4. 8. 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.
  5. 10. means ‘place of ooline timber’ in Gunggari language of South-West Queensland.
  6. 12. means ‘possum’; language not recorded/unknown but possibly Dyirbal language of Far North Queensland.
  7. 13. believed to mean ‘village of the wild rose thorn’ but there is no further reference or identifying details or language.
  8. 15. means ‘echidna’ in Gangulu language of Central Queensland.
  9. 17. 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.
  10. 19. believed to be taken from the local clan or group Bayali in Central Queensland.