Talk:Kombumerri clan

unmatched quotation mark

The current version of Kombumerri clan#Name includes an unmatched quotation mark (before people of the dry sclerophyll forest in this sentence:

In 1923 Archibald Meston stated that the Nerang tribe was called the "Talgiburri", and Germaine Greer cites the authority of Margaret Sharpe for the view that the root of Talgiburri, namely talgi- represents dalgay (dry), taking therefore this reconstituted Dalgaybara to mean "people of the dry sclerophyll forest, rather than salt-water people.

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I don't have access to the reference so I can't verify the scope of the quotation. @Nishidani: perhaps you could fix this. The text was added to the article in these edits [1][2]. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:55, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Also I've removed an umatched single-quote mark or stray formatting markup at the end of a sentence here. Possibly the preceding text is actually a quotation and should be denoted as such (with double quotation marks, probably excluding the full stop). Mitch Ames (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for that keen-eyed control, Mitch. The passage runs:-

For months I puzzled over Meston’s ‘Talgiburri’. I was ready to give up when an interesting document turned up on line. It was called ‘Turnix Report 179’ and it dealt with cultural heritage issues involved in the potential development of Bahr’s Scrub, which is part of Logan City. The report, written by archaeologist Eleanor Crosby, discussed what might be the identity of the traditional owners of the scrub, and how a group of people might call itself one thing, and be caled another by its neighbours. The example she chose was that of the Kombuberri, who called themselves in Meston’s version ‘Talgiburri’ and in Margaret Sharpe’s ‘dalgaybara’, the people of the ‘dalgay’ or dry forest. It seemed obvious to me that Talgiburri with (p118) a hard ‘g’ was cognate with Dalgaybara, the same word with slightly different voicing. Sharpe also thinks ‘dalgay’ means ‘dry’ as in ‘dead’, when I reckon the word is used the same way botanists suse it now. Dry forest is sclerophyll forest. . .I explained this to Ann: ‘The Kombumerri called themselves people of the dry forest; Bullumm called them mangrove-worm-eaters; they have since described themseleves as “saltwater people” .’(O’Conner). ‘I can’t find anything to connect them to rainforest.’ p.119.

Obviously the quotation mark should go, and a few other things adjusted. I'd prefer you, a third party, to tweak or revise what I wrote, also because I've now come upon one of Greer's sources, namely,

• Eleanor Crosby,2010 Bahrs Scrub Cultural Heritage Study,Part 1 Report to Logan City Council Turnix Pty Ltd. Turnix Report 179 2010
• Eleanor Crosby The Gugingin of Bahrs Scrub Preliminary Report, Part 2 Report to Logan City Council, Turnix Pty Ltd. Turnix Report 179 2010

And it will take me a few hours (today's extrawiki work will be heavy) to read both, though so far it appears Greer is referring to the details on pp.21ff. of Crosby's first report Nishidani (talk) 10:02, 12 January 2019 (UTC)