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Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Goonat
English JS Main: 
hair
English: 
A Native his hair matted with gum, callÕd in the native Language Goonat [caption text: in strands JS]
Category: 
body parts and products
Sub-category: 
head
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
57
Line: 
50.1
Respelt: 
gu-nad
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
"Goonat" gunad = "A Native his hair matted with gum, call’d in the native Language Goonat ...]" hair matted: Smith & Wheeler [:57:50.1] [BB]
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 64: a native, his hair matted with gum, called ... goonat

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