Otati

The Otati, or Wutati, were an Indigenous Australian people of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.[1]

Language

A list of some 400 words was taken down by Charles Gabriel Seligman, and a further 60 by George Pimm, members of Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits in the late 19th century.[2]

Country

Donald Thomson places the Otati on the coast south of Oxford Bay down to Margaret Bay.[3] Norman Tindale stated that the Otati dwelt in their traditional lands, measuring roughly 300 sq. miles, which extended from the southern part of Shelburne Bay, east and south to the Macmillan River, inland as far as the headwaters of the Dulhunty River.[1]

Lifestyle and economy

The Otati were one of the Kawadji, or sandbeach people, like the Pakadji, Olkola and others, who lived along the coast facing the Coral Sea and fished for food in the rivers and ocean.[4]

Notes and references

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    References

    • Seligman, Charles Gabriel; Pimm, George (2011) [First published 1907]. Ray, Sidney Herbert, ed. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. 3. Cambridge University Press. pp. 277–282. ISBN 978-1-001-42336-4.
    • Thomson, Donald F. (1933). "The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 63: 453–537. JSTOR 2843801.
    • Thomson, Donald F. (1972). Kinship and Behaviour in North Queensland: A preliminary account of kinship and Social Organisation on Cape York Peninsula. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Otati (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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