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This paper, No.814, originated in the Tasmania Division of The Institution.
The author, Dr. J. C. Jaeger, is Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Tasmania.
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Chunnup - Gariwerd calendar - Winter: late May to end of July - season of cockatoos
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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260