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1 Darda kan dangunj Rembarrnga

Community Education Centre. Photographs by Greg McDonnell.

2 Darda kan dangunj A story about honey A Rembarrnga language text by Jeffrey Maliwanga Campion Term 3, 1993 Ankabadbirri Homeland Centre School, Maningrida Community Education Centre. Photographs by Greg McDonnell. Ndjébbana Teacher-linguist, Maningrida CEC Maningrida CEC Private Mail Bag 67 Winnellie NT 0822

3 '.1 Darda kan dangunj Dangunj ngedjiya Jeffrey Maliwanga Campion.

4 Bulanjyih Mandingurrayih marninjhminj darda kan dangunj. Dangunj marninjhminj kurlbbur; len kan, djongko kan, yurdubbal kan. f

5 Kangin djurnʉnahka Ankubadbirri, walang Belinj Carolyn dangunj darda kan bukkah-bimbuwa, kuwa ngarr-minjdjibbun darda kan dangunj.

6 Nʉnda len, Bulanj miya kardaykka wala. Len djorlkko kan ka-yuru.

7 Nʉnda len murrumurruhna ki-dabkara.

8 Nʉnda Wamud Yirrindili kah-ngehkara len birdina.

9 Nguwahna ka-rdayhkara ngurrkuna wala.

10 Yurdubbal ka-warlk riyakkah, buluhkah, kardaykkahkah, kungurruhkah, ngorroknadjahkah, djuburl borlohkah.

11 Nʉnda riyak.

12 Nʉnda riyak borloh wurrhwurrungu.

13 Bulanj ka-djubbun kiyanahkah.

14 Nʉnda yurdubbal kiyana ka-rduru ngorroknadjah, borlohkah.

15 Yurdubbal ngorroknadjah, ka-djabbukkara kiyana.

16 Nʉnda yurdubbal, nguwahna, nuwana.

17 Nʉnda yurdubbal ngurrkuna.

18 Nʉnda djongko, djiwinjh wala miya Bulanjdjih.

19 Bulanj ka-djubbun kiyana, djongko.

20 Nʉnda djongko, ka-kikkik.

21 Bulanj ka-rdedjiyah ka-bumhmangiya djongko.

22 Nʉnda djongko bum hm iya,ngurrkuna; ka-walang-yuru mawurra.

23 Ngurrkuna karlangna bumhmiya, mawurra ka-yuru barr-barnbuna kan korlbbornkah.

24 Nʉnda kolbborn, midjdjindah barr-kanginj darda kan, djurla kan. Nʉn d a Wamud Maliwanga burrimʉrn. Walang marninjhminj karramna, walang barr-bayabminj mununga, Maningridahkah.

English translation: A story about honey. 1. Bulanj Ambrose Mandingurra made a story about honey. He made the story about three kinds of honey; about len, djongko, yurdubbal. 2.

This is len (honey in the ground), Bulanj got it from a stringybark tree. Len comes from the ground. 4. This is the block of wax that blocks off (forms the wall of) the hive. 5.

26 English translation: A story about honey. 1. Bulanj Ambrose Mandingurra made a story about honey. He made the story about three kinds of honey; about len, djongko, yurdubbal. 2. He took it home to Ankabadbirri, then Belinj Carolyn wrote the text about honey, so that we will know the language for honey. 3. This is len (honey in the ground), Bulanj got it from a stringybark tree. Len comes from the ground. 4. This is the block of wax that blocks off (forms the wall of) the hive. 5. Here Wamud Yirrindili lifts out the honeycomb. 6. He breaks off the "shit" part (the eggs and larvae) from the liquid honey part. 7. Yurdubbal occurs in Xanthostemon trees, Acacia torulosa trees, stringybark trees, woollybutt trees, bloodwood trees, lots of (different kinds of) trees. 8. This is a Xanthostemon tree. 9. This is the old trunk of a Xanthostemon tree. 10. Bulanj is pointing to the "nose" part; the entrance to the hive. 11. This is the entrance to a yurdubbal hive in a bloodwood tree. 12. This is where the yurdubbal (bees) land on the bloodwood at the entrance (to the hive).

27 13. Here is the "shit" part (eggs) and bee of yurdubbal. 14. Here is the liquid honey of yurdubbal. 15. This is djongko (honey from small branches at the top of a tree), Bulanj got it from a Eucalyptus?foelscheana. 16. Bulanj points to the entrance of the djongko hive. 17. Here are little black spots (of bee shit) around the entrance to a djongko hive. 18. Bulanj is chopping open the djongko hive. 19. Here he has opened the djongko hive; it is lying exposed. 20. The honey and the "eggs" (pollen balls) are exposed so that they can gather it into a kolbborn (honey container). 21. This is a kolbborn (carved wooden container), formerly it was used for honey and water. Wamud Maliwanga carved this one. He made the handle, then non-aboriginal people bought it in Maningrida.

the wax part; honeycomb. a special word to describe the way that the bees hover, then land on the tree and go into the entrance to the hive.

28 Dangunj darda kan badj-na birdi-na -djabbukkara djamukurl-na darda karlang-na karlang-djeladjela-na. kikkik kiya-na kolbborn mala-na murrumurruh-na ngurrku-na nguwah-na nguwah-djeladjela-na nuwa-na Honey vocabulary the wax around the "nose", built up around the entrance to the hive like a pipe. the wax part; honeycomb. a special word to describe the way that the bees hover, then land on the tree and go into the entrance to the hive. the "vomit" part; sweet watery honey, frothy, with bubbles in it. honey; the whole hive the "eggs" part; pollen balls "juicy" pollen balls; honey and pollen mixed together, little black spots (bee shit) on the outside of the tree around the entrance to the hive, or on a branch or on the ground below the entrance to the hive. When you see these you know that there is honey inside, the "nose" part; the entrance to the hive; a little hole like a nostril in the tree where the bees go into and come out of the hive, a carved wooden container for carrying liquids such as water or honey. the floor at the bottom of the hive; a block of wax at the base of a vertically oriented hive, the wall of the hive; a block of wax at the side of a horizontally oriented hive, the liquid honey part the "shit" part; eggs and larvae, in tiny spheres of wax. "juicy shit" part; bee eggs and larvae mixed together with sweet liquid. the honey bee

Len is found in the roots of stringybark trees, in ant-bed (termitalia) at the base of a tree, or on clay embankments, kawurruwa duwa honey in rock.

29 Darda buh ngurrkuna Different kinds of honey djongko duwa a small hive. Djongko is always at the top of the tree in the thin outer branches. The hive is horizontally oriented, len duwa honey in the ground. Len is found in the roots of stringybark trees, in ant-bed (termitalia) at the base of a tree, or on clay embankments, kawurruwa duwa honey in rock. This hive is found in very hard stony ground or in crevices between rocks in the escarpment country, yurdubbal duwa a large hive. Yurdubbal is found in branches at the top of the tre The hive may be vertically oriented. It has a long wax tunnel that sticks out from the tree at the entrance to the hive. The hive may be quite large, with a wax wall after each section of eggs, pollen balls and honeycomb, and containing several such sections along the length of the branch. dibbu a large hive. Dibbu is found in a hole in the trunk or a hollow broken-off branch stump. It has a wide entrance. birrkkurda yirridjdja a large hive in the thick middle part of the tree. birrkurdkurd yirridjdja This has "selfish bees". Darda djamu-na ' Dogs for honey': bee predators kurrudjil yirridjdja "dog for len"; a wasp, yellow colour. This wasp eats bees. It sits outside the "nose" part and grabs bees as they come out. When you see that kurrudjil there on the tree, you know that there is honey inside. nono yirridjdja "dog for yurdubbal"; a wasp, pink colour. You see this wasp outside the entrance to the yurdubbal hive. When you see it you know that there is honey inside.

Djubul borloh darda kan Lots of trees for honey the symbol ** means that we do not have an English language gloss for this Rembarrnga name. The question mark?

djalngarn Eucalyptus patellaris eucalypt with red sap. This grows around Bulman. djilarra ** djiwinjh?

30 Djubul borloh darda kan Lots of trees for honey the symbol ** means that we do not have an English language gloss for this Rembarrnga name. The question mark? means that there is an English gloss but it needs checking. More work is needed. buluh Acacia torulosa wattle with skinny-leaf, grows in sand beside rivers. djalngarn Eucalyptus patellaris eucalypt with red sap. This grows around Bulman. djilarra ** djiwinjh? Eucalyptus foelscheana kardaykka Eucalyptus tetradonta, stringybark tree good flowers, good place for len (ground honey). kolokko-warlan-mudjdju ** (? kolokkolo Eucalyptus pruinosa (G. McKay) kungurru Eucalyptus miniata, woollybutt tree. mʉniyarr ** (? manjarr Barringtonia acutangula, freshwater mangrove. (G. McKay) ngorroknadja Eucalyptus polycarpa, bloodwood tree riyak Xanthostemon sp. wurburrk? Tristania sp. (G. McKay) G. McKay, Rembarrnga: A language of central Arnhem Land. PhD thesis, Department of Linguistics (the Faculties), Australian National University.

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T J A M P I T J I N P A T A R A A N T A R R I N G U TJAMPITJINPA TARAANTARRINGU Copyright 1985 Papunya Literature Production Centre. Story by, Papulu Tjupurrula Transcribed by, Murphy Roberts Illustrations