Kokomini

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

Country

The Kokomini are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had tribal grounds stretching over about 2,300 square miles (6,000 km2) along the middle Palmer and Mitchell rivers, extending westwards to the area where the two meet.[1] Their eastern limits were around Mount Mulgrave and Palmerville.[2]

Customs

The Kokomini were said to have used a concoction drawn from Darwin stringybark leaves as a remedy for fever.[3]

History of contact

Kokomini territory was occupied by white settlers in 1874. Conflicts ensued as the Kokomini speared livestock introduced for grazing on their land, resulting in war between the two. The war was still ongoing a decade later, with the rule established that the indigenous Kokokmini had no right to be "let in" to their land, and a good many were shot down, putatively in "retaliation" for the loss of cattle and horses.[3] The Queensland politician Edward Palmer ran a station in the area in the 1880s.

Alternative names

  • Koko-minni
  • Koogominny, Kookaminnie, Koogaminny
  • Koogobatha, Koogobathy
  • Mirkin[1]
  • Akunkun, Akoon-koon
  • Akoonkool
  • Kookawarra. (Wakara exonym, with the pejorative sense of "poor speakers")[4]

Some words

  • innar (kangaroo)
  • oota (wild dog)
  • athee. (father)
  • among. (mother)[5]

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 Palmer 1886, p. 396.
    2. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 176.
    3. 1 2 Palmer 1886, p. 496.
    4. ↑ Tindale 1974, pp. 176–177.
    5. ↑ Palmer 1886, p. 498.

    Sources

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    • Mathews, R. H. (1899). "Division of tribes in the Northern Territory". Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 33: 111–114.
    • Mathews, R. H. (1907). "Notes on some aboriginal tribes". Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 41: 67–87.
    • McConnel, Ursula (September 1931). "A Moon Legend from the Bloomfield River, North Queensland". Oceania. 2 (1): 9–25. JSTOR 40327351.
    • Palmer, Edward (1886). "Akoonkoon, Palmer River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 396–399.
    • Richards, F. (1926). "Customs and language of the Western Hodgkinson aboriginals". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8 (3): 249–265.
    • Sharp, R. Lauriston (March 1939a). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia". Oceania. 9 (3): 254–275. JSTOR 40327744.
    • Sharp, R. Lauriston (June 1939b). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia (Continued)". Oceania. 9 (4): 439–461. JSTOR 40327762.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kokomini (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.
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