"Junjudee are the smallest of the three ‘marsupial hominoid’
omnivores. Typically, they are about three feet in
height or slightly more, with one encounter reporting a
height approaching five feet. Junjudee can be considered
analogous to monkeys. Junjudee are black-skinned mammals,
covered in short, black hair. Their bodies are gracile
with a straight back and no tail. The feet and hands each
have five digits with black claws. The head is large for the
body size and ovate in shape. The head, face and buttocks
are covered in what appears to be a fine layer of hair, similar
to a horse’s coat. The face has a thirteen-millimetre
wide brownish-yellow fur annulus surrounding each eye
that is highly conspicuous.
"Each Aboriginal tribe would have their name for Junjudee,
with the appellation in this case having a South Coast,
NSW, origin that originally became known to the Octopus
from information provided by a tribal Elder from that
region. A more generic term used from northern NSW to
Northern Queensland is ‘Brown Jack’—sometimes ‘Little
Fellas’ is applied as a colloquial alternative.
"Almost from the beginning, we received a few reports
from Aboriginal Elders, local residents, friends and others
that suggested, in addition to large Wildmen, there could
be small monkey-like bipeds as well. A very early incident that occurred before our encounter with Fatfoot, involved
a neighbour who saw a short ‘gnome-like’ animal pressing
its face and cupping its hands against the glass of her
downstairs sliding door when she turned on the lights.
When we were later told of this sighting, after becoming
Yowie-aware, we misinterpreted it. We initially believed
that the small biped was a juvenile Dooligahl, probably one
of Fatfoot’s offspring and not a different ‘marsupial hominoid’
type. However, it could have been something else
because we knew little; our initial interpretation remains
ambivalent."
