gloss “bower bird”
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Kuku-Yalanji Dictionary (1982)
The headword and meaning trace to the Kuku-Yalanji dictionary compiled by Henry and Ruth Hershberger with major Kuku Yalanji contributors.
Major contributors include Toby Bloomfield, Roy Friday, Billy Roberts, Hector and Doris Sykes, Joe Walker, and people who lived at Jajikal in Ayton.
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bower bird
species of rock python. Not many at Bloomfield, but many at Helenvale, Rossville and Shiptons Flats. They have a white head and will chase bald-headed people not wearing a hat beecause they think they are being copied
poisonous snake (found in the Rossville-Shipton's Fault area)