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"ref": "1993, Grace Koch, Harold Koch, Kaytetye Country: An Aboriginal History of the Barrow Creek Area",
"text": "That way — north. And he tryin to go right to Akwerrkepentye. And he reckon he bin seein 'What's this one?' And he can hearem, you know. 'Ay, sugarbag, some one. Might be sugarbag here.' And he can hearem, 'Ah, yeah, sugarbag, all right.'",
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"text": "That way — north. And he tryin to go right to Akwerrkepentye. And he reckon he bin seein 'What's this one?' And he can hearem, you know. 'Ay, sugarbag, some one. Might be sugarbag here.' And he can hearem, 'Ah, yeah, sugarbag, all right.'",
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"ref": "2005, Tony Roberts, Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900",
"text": "While gathering 'sugarbag', or native honey, a day or so later, the young teenagers again came very close to being shot: The troopers were dog tired. Rosie was up in the tree chopping out a sugarbag with a stone axe.",
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},
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"ref": "2010 September 7, Diana Plater, “Battle for Noonkanbah paid off”, in The West Australian",
"text": "They do still practise traditional hunting methods though - teaching the kids how to find sugarbag, how to fish and hunt for goannas and other animals.",
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