cooliman

The native well, as we found it, had been scooped out with hand and cooliman, just large enough to allow one to descend to a depth of fifteen feet, and the sides of the hole plastered back with mud, which had baked hard.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

These, the simplest form of cooliman, are made by peeling the bark off the projecting lumps so common on the stems of bloodwoods.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

His lady followed him with a cooliman under her arm, with a further supply of reptiles and rats.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The gins sometimes carry two of these, one in front and one behind, the flames pointing inwards; and with a baby sitting straddle-legs over their neck and a cooliman under their arms make quite

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Then, going round to the back, application was made to a bucket of water, from which a cooliman or native bark bowl was filled, and in a few moments Shanter's good-humoured, clean, black countenance was drying in the sun.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

Then seizing the hatchet and cooliman he rapidly ascended the tree, and began to cut out great pieces of dripping honeycomb, while the boys laughed upon seeing that the hobbled horses, objecting to be left alone in the great wild, had trotted close up and looked as if they had come on purpose to see the honey taken.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

"Shanter let 'em know," he cried; and running back to the camp he left the boys watching the bees, till he returned with a cooliman -- a bark bowl formed by peeling the excrescence of a tree -- and some sticks well lighted at the end.

The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870