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19-538: Lardil may refer to: Lardil people Lardil language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lardil . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lardil&oldid=925917733 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

38-452: A cattle station owner with whom he fell out, but was dissuaded from doing so and told by Ganggalida people to return to his home country after refusing to obey local demands that he move back to the mainland. Hall was succeeded by the Rev. Wilson, who imposed a dormitory system, segregating children from their elders and thus breaking the chain of tradition through which tribal lore and law

57-526: A beer canteen, government developmental funds were seen as allowing one to dispense with the necessity to work, and, as alcoholism spread, the Mornington Island peoples began to rank among the communities with the highest rate of suicide in Australia. Interpersonal violence was common, including domestic violence; a few young white women have formed relationships with island youths and moved to

76-402: A ketch is rigged so that it can fly multiple jibs at the same time, the rig is sometimes referred to as a multi-headsail ketch. While sometimes seen in print, it is incorrect to refer to this rig by the modern malaprop of a cutter ketch . In New England in the 1600s, the ketch was a small coastal working watercraft. In the 1700s, it disappeared from contemporary records, apparently replaced by

95-423: A meticulous ethnobotanical knowledge and David McKnight has argued that "their botanical taxonomy is of the same intellectual order as our botanical scientific taxonomy". People raised within the mission , once detached from the hunter and gatherer lifestyle of the traditional community, were considered good workers to recruit for the pastoral stations, where they were employed as drovers and ringers . Once

114-417: Is derived from catch . The ketch's main mast is usually stepped further forward than the position found on a sloop . The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl , on which the mizzen mast is smaller and set further back. There are versions of the ketch rig that only have a mainsail and a mizzen, in which case they are referred to as cat ketch . More commonly ketches have headsails (Jibs). When

133-456: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lardil people Lardil , now moribund , belongs to the Tangkic language family . The feature of kinship-sensitive pronominal prefixes had been ignored until they were discovered by Kenneth L. Hale in a study of Lardil. A special second language, Damin thought of as a tongue created by

152-505: Is stepped forward of the rudder post . The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl , which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries, ketch rigs were often employed on larger yachts and working watercraft, but ketches are also used as smaller working watercraft as short as 15 feet, or as small cruising boats, such as Bill Hanna's Tahiti ketches or L. Francis Herreshoff's Rozinante and H-28. The name ketch

171-564: The Yellow Trevally fish ancestor Kaltharr, and devised in part to mimic 'fish talk' was taught during the second degree of initiation ( warama ). This initiation register of specialized Lardil has fascinated linguists: it contained in its phonemic repertoire two types of airstream initiation, a pulmonic ingressive (l*) and a labiovelar lingual egressive (p'), unique among the world's languages. The secret language reinscribed in what looks like an indigenous form of semantic analysis

190-601: The schooner . The ketch rig remained popular in America throughout the 19th and early 20th century working watercraft, with well-known examples being the Chesapeake Bay bugeyes, New Haven sharpies, and the Kingston Lobster boats. In Europe, during this same period many of the canoe yawls were technically ketches since their mizzen masts were located forward of the rudder posts. The cat ketch rig experienced

209-574: The Wellesley Islands were set aside as an Aboriginal reserve . Generally, once Aboriginal resistance to the take-over of their lands was broken, they were concentrated in reserves and missions. Presbyterian missionaries were granted permission to establish a mission on Mornington Island , and one was duly built in 1914. A mission was established on Mornington Island by the Rev. Robert Hall, his wife and two assistants, Mr and Mrs Owen, and Hall strove to institute economic self-sufficiency for

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228-539: The early 2000s the community was declared "dry" and importation of alcohol was forbidden. By 2021 dangerous amounts of strong home-brewed alcoholic drink and of " sly grog " (smuggled alcoholic drink) were being consumed, and petrol sniffing was common. Diets were poor, consisting mainly of imported heavily-processed foods; Save the Children were trying to combat malnutrition among children, and among adults diabetes and renal failure were common. Average life expectancy

247-465: The entire Lardil vocabulary into 200 words and has been described by Hale as a 'monument to the human intellect'. Since Damin was a language involving rituals disapproved of by the missionaries, it disappeared with the outlawing and suppression of the Lardil ritual cycles. Rockwall fish traps ( derndernim ) were constructed off the coast to catch varieties of fish as the tides receded. The Lardil had

266-427: The island, to find that their boyfriend's behaviour changed and their anticipated idyll close to nature did not materialize. "They usually departed after their first "proper good hiding" and invariably by the second". Mornington Island, with its schools, churches, libraries and hospitals, is often presented as a model community to outsiders. However, by 2003 its society and its people had been devastated by alcohol. In

285-481: The islanders' economy, having an all-native crew manning the ketch , while organising the harvesting and curing of trepang . Their initial presence, according to one account, was received positively by the Lardil people. Hall was speared and killed in 1917 by a Lardil man, "Burketown Peter/Bad Peter" a respected drover based in Burketown , who ran into trouble, often standing up for his rights, and wanted to kill

304-472: The mission head played an influential role as intermediary. The dormitory system was discontinued in 1954. The population of the island is no longer exclusively Lardil, after several tribal groups, among them the Kaiadilt , were relocated by missionaries from Bentinck Island . The Mornington Island Mission was substituted by a community administration in 1978. The Shire council in the 1970s introduced

323-413: The mission was closed, the elderly once more regained some control. However the Lardil people who had spent their mature years on the mainland as farm workers had no traditional background for raising children to draw on. The result was that the generation of children raised from the 1960s onwards had no grasp of either the old or new work technologies and ethics. With the exception of Sweers Island , all

342-401: Was 53, twenty years shorter than Australians generally. A local councillor said that "Prohibition on Mornington Island has become part of the problem instead of the solution" and the council was considering reopening a tavern. According to Tindale: Ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast

361-422: Was transmitted. The older generations were normally left to their own devices as missionaries concentrated on separating them from their children, and concentrating their efforts on the youngest: aside from religious indoctrination , sexual and marriage customs were challenged, and subject to control. Few of the Lardil girls brought up in the dormitory married according to the traditional kinship rules, given that

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