carcup

Nyunga

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Noun

carcup

1. Spirit from the mating of land and sea eagles.

References

• 1975, Ethel Hassell, My dusky friends: Aboriginal life, customs and legends and glimpses of station life at Jarramungup in the 1880s
• 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.