A waddy, nulla nulla or hunting stick is an Australian Abo war club. The former name comes from the Dharuk Aborigines of Port Jackson, Sydney[1]. Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney Australia Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4
A waddy is a heavy club constructed of carved timber. Waddies have been used in hand to hand combat, and were capable of splitting a shield, and killing or stunning food. In addition to this they could be employed as a projectile as well as used to make fire and make ochre. The Ochre Pits are a popular tourist destination in Australia 's Northern Territory, approximately 50 kilometres west of Alice Springs along the Larapinta They found further use in punishing those who broke Aboriginal law.
They were made by both men and women and could be painted or left unpainted. Their construction varied from tribe to tribe, but they were generally about one to two metres in length and sometimes had a stone head attached with bees wax and string. For the rock song by Nirvana see Beeswax (song. Beeswax is a natural Wax produced in the bee hive of Honey bees of the genus They were made from where a branch met the tree, or from a young tree pulled up with its roots from the ground.
Originally, the word waddy referred to a tree, or any piece of wood, as well as a verb meaning to 'beat up or kill with a club'.
It has also been spelled as wadi, wady, wadii, and waddie. The spelling stabilised around the mid-nineteenth century, partly to help distinguish it from the Arabic word wadi, a dry water course. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Wadi (وادي) (also Vadi) is traditionally a valley In some cases it can refer to a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain [2]
Uses
Some other uses are for ceremonies. A ceremony is an activity infused with Ritual significance performed on a special occasion Men will wave these above their heads to ward off evil spirits, while in some cultures the women will go out and use these to hunt the ceremonial feast - usually a large kangaroo and some bush fruits. A kangaroo is a Marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods meaning 'large foot' Sometimes the waddy can be used as a digging tool, to dig up bush tuckers that are underground such as the bush potato. Bush potato, is an Australian native plant It is found in Central Australia.
References
- ^ Peters, Pam, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-43401-7
- ^ Peters, Pam, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-43401-7
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