1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, 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.

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.

Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead.

Dan is creeping through the bushes on the other side of the mia-mia.

Mia mia

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