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Claiming the ‘Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe’

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Figure 1. Schematic Representation of Johann Lhotsky’s 1834 Expedition to the Australian Alps, Superimposed on a Modern Location Map. Note: Dates and names of places in boxes are drawn from his published account of the journey (Lhotsky Citation1835). Locations visited by Lhotsky on the nights of the full moons of 25 January, 23 February and 24 March are highlighted.

Figure 1. Schematic Representation of Johann Lhotsky’s 1834 Expedition to the Australian Alps, Superimposed on a Modern Location Map. Note: Dates and names of places in boxes are drawn from his published account of the journey (Lhotsky Citation1835). Locations visited by Lhotsky on the nights of the full moons of 25 January, 23 February and 24 March are highlighted.

Table 1. Six-phrase Text of the Song as given by Lhotsky (1834), with transliteration by Troy.

Table 2. Proposed glossing of the lyrics of the Song, by Troy.

Figure 2. Lhotsky’s 1834 Setting of the Song (Lhotsky Citation1834a, 2). Note: Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.

Figure 2. Lhotsky’s 1834 Setting of the Song (Lhotsky Citation1834a, 2). Note: Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.

Figure 3. Isaac Nathan’s Rearrangement of Lhotsky’s Original: ‘The Aboriginal Father’, with English Text by Eliza Dunlop (Nathan Citation1843, 3). Note: Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.

Figure 3. Isaac Nathan’s Rearrangement of Lhotsky’s Original: ‘The Aboriginal Father’, with English Text by Eliza Dunlop (Nathan Citation1843, 3). Note: Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.

Figure 4. Sketch Setting of ‘Gundji gawalgu yuri’. Note: Text proposed by Troy, music proposed by Barwick, 2020.

Figure 4. Sketch Setting of ‘Gundji gawalgu yuri’. Note: Text proposed by Troy, music proposed by Barwick, 2020.