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By Fiona Doyle
Using pictures, often encouraged paintings and language phrases, Fiona Doyle invitations us into the center of Cape York's Wikwaya country.
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Some of the women were getting yam stick and sticking them in the ground so then they make basket. Men make spears, while others practising to throw spears good for hunting. Anyway that husband and wife bin plan to go by themselves. They were sitting under the shade talking about it when four men bin look them. A’ one bin go over to them two. ’ ‘Oh we going thoonki for yam’, they bin tell him, not knowing that that one they bin ask gammon one where they 19 going. Them two bin silly to tell because them men bin straightaway plan evil.
After their fishing trip, they were just relaxing around the house, when they suddenly heard the old DC3 plane arriving. In those days it was an exciting time when a plane or boat arrived from outside. It was an event in itself, to run and greet the new arrivals. This particular plane had come from Normanton. Nana remembers that she was so excited about this plane arriving that she rushed out to the airstrip to witness the unloading of the mail and supplies. That night she felt ill once more and was rushed to Thursday Island hospital, this time by cargo boat.
He had surrendered out of respect to Dick Kelinda, as tracker, because there was no way someone with this man’s advanced bush skills would allow himself to be caught by anyone other than a relative. My great-grandfather refused to whip his relative and threw the whip away on his return to the mission. Nana once told me about a bizarre happening that occurred as the result of a crime that took place. This story has stayed with me because of its strangeness. One day husband and wife bin go thoonki for yams.