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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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A water spirit with a female body and a fishtail, living in a spring in the Thompson Creek valley and associated with one particular Yalanji family clan; it tolerates rightful family members, who may use its spring water believed to have healing powers.