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wilki

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red ochre, paint

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Wil-gi : Paint (red ochreous clay) (Symmons 1842: 3)
uilghi : red earth (Salvado 1851: 265)
wilghee : red ochre and grease (Chauncy 1878: 238)
Wilgee : Clay, red (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 14)
Wilgee : Clay, red (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 14)
Wilga : Clay, red (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 9)
Wilgee : Clay, red (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 14)
wilgee : mix of ochre and grease (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 49)
willgi : red ochre with grease (Rae 1913: 2)
wilgerka : yellow (Bussell 1930: 58)
Wilga : red ochre (Glauert 1950: 8)
Wilgee : paint used in corroberees (Davis 1969: 8)
wilgie : red and yellow ochre worn when courting (Hassell 1975: 233)
wileq : red ochre (Von Brandenstein 1988: 129)
wilgi : burnt clay, red ochre (Douglas 1991: 17)
wilki : red ochre (corroborree painl) (Whitehurst 1992: 45)
wilak : red ochre, clay (S,E) (Dench 1994: 180)
Wilki : clay, white ochre (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)