Rungarungawa

The Rungarungawa were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

See also: Rungarungawa language

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, Rungarungawa lands comprised some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) in the area of Roxburgh Downs Station and the Pituri Creek.[1]

History of contact

Around 1880, some years after their lands were taken up for white colonization, the Rungarungawa's number were estimated to be approximately 120.[2][3]

Alternative names

Some words
  • birri-birri. (whiteman)
  • numma. (mother)
  • peealee. (wild dog)
  • toota.(tame dog)
  • yapperi. (father)

Source: Craigie 1886, p. 356

Notes
  1. Edward Micklethwaite Curr's transcription of a report by Craigie, considered by Tindale to be a misprint, (Craigie 1886, p. 350)

Citations
  1. Tindale 1974, p. 185.
  2. Craigie 1886, p. 350.
  3. Krzywicki 1934, p. 310.

Sources
  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
  • Craigie, James (1886). "Roxburgh Downs, Lower Georgina" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 356–357.
  • Krzywicki, Ludwik (1934). Primitive society and its vital statistics. Macmillan Publishers.
  • Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
  • Tibbett, Kevin (2002). "Archaeological analysis of stone axe exchange networks in the Lake Eyre Basin during the mid- to late Holocene". Australian Archaeology (55): 22–29. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.856.9215.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Rungarungawa (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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