Wife Stealing and Bush Killings Part 5

@Wadeye People and Culture Prior to the Catholic Mission 1935 the population of the Daly Region was low. People had gone work to cattle stations or Daly River and Darwin. The impacts of disease epidemics like influenza, leprosy and tribal warfare. There was a shortage of women some think was also caused by smallpox epidemics since 1860 which affected women and children more than men. Muthay, the woman on the right escaped from a man who tried to steal her and was taken to Legune Station where her brother Joe Birari Malakunda Dungai, the singer man was working. He was Manmans husband. She married Jinjair and had many children.