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Updated: June 21, 2025
Old Hippi said, as the other man, in a sort of recitative 'Never again will she use a fire. Where she goes fires are not. For she goes to the women, the dead women, And women can make no fires. Fruit is there in plenty and grass seed, But no birds nor beasts in the heaven of woman. Again the women wailed, wail after wail.
Hippi said a great deal more would have been spoken and sung at the grave if the dead person had been a man. One curious coincidence occurred in connection with this burial. Seeing the droughty desolation of the country, as we walked to the grave, I asked old Bootha when she thought it would rain again.
Masculine Murree BROTHER AND SISTER Feminine, Matha Thus, you see, they take, if girls, their grandmother's and her sisters' 'class' names in common; if boys, the 'class' name of their grandmother's brothers. Bootha can only marry Murree, Matha can only marry Kumbo, Hippitha can only marry Kubbee, Kubbootha can only marry Hippi.
In particular I should like to mention my indebtedness to Peter Hippi, king of the Noongahburrahs; and to Hippitha, Matah, Barahgurrie, and Beemunny. I have dedicated my booklet to Peter Hippi, in grateful recognition of his long and faithful service to myself and my husband, which has extended, with few intervals, over a period of twenty years.
When it was filled in Hippi made another big smoke, thoroughly smoked himself, calling to all the men to do the same. An old woman made a big smoke behind where the women were sitting; she called them one by one and made them stand in the thick of it for a while. Hippi said something to her. I caught the word 'Innerah' they called me Innerah, which meant literally a woman with a camp of her own.
The coffin was put down beside the grave, the daughter and other nearest women relations stayed with it, the other women went away into the bush in one direction, some of the men in another. Old Hippi heaped up some Budtha twigs he had gathered, I noticed as we came along; these he set fire to, and made a dense smoke which hung low over the open grave and spread over the old graves.
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