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Kangaroo installation crop.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Each word for ‘kangaroo’ in more than 180 Australian languages was extracted from the original hand-written version of Curr’s compendium of Aboriginal languages.
Kangaroo and grass tree, c 1857
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Record of the many different Aboriginal names used to name 'kangaroo', ca. 1857.