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mia mia

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mia mia

(Australia) An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.
- 1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uYd8pQ2_ig0C&pg=PA391&dq=%22mia+mia%22|%22mia+mias%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vh6vT9SBEMaQiQf-7bzeCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mia%20mia%22|%22mia%20mias%22&f=false page 391],
  On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile.
- 1914, Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, 2010, Cambridge University Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KzKWzF08qcgC&pg=PA109&dq=%22mia+mia%22|%22mia+mias%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vh6vT9SBEMaQiQf-7bzeCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mia%20mia%22|%22mia%20mias%22&f=false page 109],
  Decorated with this mop of hair and the chaplet, the girl was led by her father to the mia-mia and put inside this with the four boys.
- 1932, W. Ramsay Smith, The Flood and its Results, Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, 2003, Dover, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NXSEpixcYukC&pg=PA158&dq=%22mia+mia%22|%22mia+mias%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vh6vT9SBEMaQiQf-7bzeCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mia%20mia%22|%22mia%20mias%22&f=false page 160],
  Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead.

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