nanya

Updated: May 8, 2025

In answer I pointed to our beards, when they pulled their beards and said, "Nanya patta," by which name I have heard it called at Swan River also. Then they pointed to some young lads in the boat and asked were they women. They called it by a different name.

Sir George Grey - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2