spear-thrower

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Wig goon
English JS Main: 
spear-thrower
English: 
throwing-stick====... aboriginal weapon, coloured brown with black linear decoration, .... long club with a darker knob and a flange or barb to the left, and a band of black diagonal lines at intervals along its length. ... Credits: The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
weapons and parts
Sub-category: 
spear-thrower
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12078.1
Respelt: 
wi-gun
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Wig-goon’ wigun = ‘Throwing stick without the shell’: Anon [c:8:2] [BB]
Source Details: 
INDIGENOUS NAMES IN WORKS BY THE PORT JACKSON PAINTER, THOMAS WATLING etc. Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London Transcribed by Keith V. Smith 2002 Watling, Thomas, 1762-1814? -------------- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON <[WebCat] Search The Natural History Museum's library catalogue> The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry. --------- Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription. ========= NO PAINTERS FILE: This is the PENCIL line number (in JS ’Painters’ ringbinder) supplied by Keith Smith. the page numbers entered by JS
Comment: 
Watling Drawing - no. 78: Aboriginal weapons and implements, "Wig goon, Womarang, Woo da" / Port Jackson Painter]