Warkawarka

Map of Victoria Aboriginal tribes

The Warkawarka are an Australian Aboriginal tribe whose traditional lands are located in Victoria, Australia.[1]

Name

The name seems to derive from their word for 'no' (warki=warka)[1]

Country

The Warkawarka tribal lands extended over approximately 2,000 square miles (5,200 km2), from Tyrrell Creek and Lake Tyrrell, southwards to Warracknabeal and Birchip. Their western boundary lay along Hopetoun, and they also ranged over the Morton Plains.[1]

Alternative names

  • Werkawerka.
  • Waikywaiky,
  • Weki-weki,
  • Wengenmarongeitch.
  • Mirdiragoort.
  • Booroung,Boorong.[1]
  • Wirtu,Wirtoo.[1]

Some words

  • wirtu. (man).[1]

Notes

    Citations

    Sources

    • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
    • Beveridge, Peter (1865) [First published 1861]. "A few notes on the dialects, habits, customs and mythology of the Lower Murray aborigines". Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 6: 14–24.
    • Beveridge, Peter (1883). "Of the aborigines inhabiting the great lacustrine and Riverine depression of the Lower Murray". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Melbourne. 17: 19–74.
    • Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1887). 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 (PDF). Volume 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres.
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
    • Mathews, R. H. (January 1898). "Initiation ceremonies of Australian tribes.Appendix Nguttan initiation ceremony". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Melbourne. 37 (157): 54–73. JSTOR 983694.
    • Smyth, Robert Brough (1878). The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania (PDF). Volume 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres, gov't printer.
    • Stanbridge, William Edward (1858). "On the Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria" (PDF). Transactions Philosophical Institute Victoria. 2: 137–140.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.


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