This item comprises 2 copies, 87 pages each, of Scherer's translation of Reuther's Manuscript, Volume VI. Vocabulary used to define each of the 74 concepts is cross-referenced back to Reuther's Dictionary. The concepts are numbered as follows:
- Pigments
- Prohibitions affecting women
- Corroborees
- Figurative expressions
- Compounded verbs
- Sun, moon, stars and time
- General prohibitions
- The death penalty
- Strangulations
- Commendable attributes
- Signs and tokens
- Points of the compass
- Word combinations
- Disposition
- Heart, conscience
- Omens
- Food and drink
- Rules and regulations
- Ceremonial feasts
- From birth to initiation
- Initiation
- The family
- Relationship between husband and wife
- Invitations
- The Mura
- Widows and widowers
- Mourning
- Purification
- Death
- Marriage
- Origin of words
- Forebodings and presentiments
- Acts of offence
- Hunting
- Diseases
- Fighting
- Instructors of the law
- Agreement regarding the deceased
- Restoration of peace
- Territories and boundaries
- Fighting
- Cursings and bewitchings
- Relatives
- Headmen and subordinates
- Travel
- Hospitality
- The Muramuras
- Trade
- Legacies
- Wind and clouds
- Place names
- not listed
- Agents of the devil
- The devil and spirits
- Murder, plunder and theft
- not listed
- Fire
- Women's work
- Men's work
- Punishment of young men
- Spirits
- Terms for parts of the human body
- Sorcery
- Games
- Kalu
- Personal characteristics
- Totems
- Pintara and pinta
- Relationship between defacto husbands and wives
- Names of plants, animals, birds, fish and humans
- The earth
- The soul
- Thunder and lightening
- Dream/s
Tindale Tribes: Dieri.
Creator: Rev. Johann Georg Reuther
Control: AA 266/25/9/1-2
Quantity:
2cm,
174
pages, 35.5cm x 25.0cm copy and A4
Formats: Photocopied Documents
Series:
AA266/25