Hear the pronunciation, spoken by Ananais Jawulba
Yimayhyirud is a duwa moiety place near Mumeka on the Liverpool River, which flows all the way to Maningrida. Yimayhyirud belongs to the Kurulk clan. There is a grove of Corypha palms there, on the river. They grow and once they flower, they die. The flowers produce an edible fruit. We pound them and throw away the seed and they are quite delicious. We squeeze a handful of the pounded fruit and then we chew on it. Adults and children like to eat it. The Old People ate it, the Ancestors. Those palm tree fruits and the other bush foods are our history – things like Cayratia tubers, long yams, cheeky yams, Ipomoea tubers, water lily corms, Vigna vexillata tubers, Hypoxis nervosa tubers, Triglochin dubia tubers.
– John Mawurndjul, with translation by Murray Garde