Warkawarka

The Warkawarka, also called Weki Weki, were an Australian Aboriginal group whose traditional lands are located in Victoria, Australia.[1] Controversy exists as to whether they were an independent 'tribe' or rather consisted of a subgroup of the Wergaia, the latter view being shared by both Robert M. W. Dixon and Luise Hercus.[2]

Map of Victoria Aboriginal tribes

Name

The ethnonym seems to derive from their word for 'no' (warki=warka),[1] though the name itself, warkawarka/wargawarga arguably may be a variant of the ethnonym for the Wergaia.[3]

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

Some words

Notes

    Citations
    1. Tindale 1974, p. 208.
    2. Clark 1998, p. 58.
    3. Clark 1995, p. 177.

    Sources
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Clark, Ian (1995). Scars in the Landscape: A Register of Massacre Sites in Western Victoria, 1803-1859. Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 978-0-855-75595-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Clark, Ian D. (1998). "That's My Country Belonging to Me": Aboriginal Land Tenure and Dispossession in Nineteenth Century Western Victoria. Melbourne: Heritage Matters. ISBN 978-1-876-40406-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Stanbridge, William Edward (1858). "On the Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria" (PDF). Transactions Philosophical Institute Victoria. 2: 137–140.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Warkawarka (VIC)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)



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