Dhuwal
The Dhuwal are an indigenous Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Language
[edit | edit source]Dhuwal belongs to the Yolŋu-Matha branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family.
Country
[edit | edit source]The Dhuwal were described by Norman Tindale in 1974 as one of two groups of clans, the other being the Dhuwala, both living predominantly in the coastal area facing the Arafura Sea, and inhabiting the east Arnhem land coastal area reaching from Castlereagh Bay, Buckingham River, and the Koolatong River to the vicinity of Port Bradshaw. Tindale's approximate estimate of their land estates' extension, calculated together with that of the Dhuwala, was 5,400 square miles (14,000 km2).[1] In 1927 the missionary J. C. Jennison wrote down a list of some 900 words he heard from the indigenous people of Elcho Island,[2] and modern linguistic analysis indicates that this word-list consists of vocabulary from the Dhuwal language.[3] The implication is that Dhuwal estates also existed on that island.
History of contact
[edit | edit source]The first European to come in contact with the Dhuwal, the Balamumu (seafolk/coastal people) at Caledon Bay, was Matthew Flinders. Two were shot dead in skirmishes. A short word-list was compiled of their language.[4][5][6]
Social organization
[edit | edit source]Dhuwal society is organized in terms of eight clans, all belonging to the Dua moiety of the Yirritja/Dia binome:
- Tjambarupingu[a]
- Leiagawumir[b]
- Leiagalawumir (Leyagalawumirr, Liaalaomir, Laigalawumiri, Laigulawulmiree)
- Datiwui (Datiwuy)
- Marangu (Marrangu, Marrakuli, Merango)
- Marakulu (Marrakulu, Maragulu)
- Djapu[c]
- Dapuingu[d]
Alternative names
[edit | edit source]- Balamumu (southern exonym for the coastal tribes around Caledon Bay, meaning 'sea/coastal folk')
- Barlamomo, Barlamumu
- Malag (from the word mala, meaning 'sea')
- Marlark
- Arrawiya
- Banjarrpuma
- Bilamandji
- Dhurili (mainly used of clans to the south)
- Durilji[1]
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Variant transcriptions: 'Tjambarpoing, Djambarrpuyngu, Djambarpingu, Djambarbwingu, Jambarboinga, Jumbapoingo, Djambarbingo, Djambarbwingo, Djambarpinga, Tchambarupi, Djambarwingu, Gujula, Gwiyula, Ngaladharr, Naladaer, Ngalado'[1]
- ^ Variant transcriptions: 'Leyagawumirr, Liagaomir, Laigajomir, Laigojomir, Galbanuk, Galwanuk, Galwangug'[1]
- ^ Variant transcriptions: 'Djabu, Tjapu, Jabu, Darmaramiri, Dhamalamirr, Maradungimi, Maradanggimiri, Marrathanggimir'[1]
- ^ Variant transcriptions: 'Dhapuyngu, Wurrungguku, Wurungugu'[1]
Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d e f Tindale 1974, p. 224.
- ^ Jennison 1927, pp. 177–192.
- ^ Morphy 1983, p. 10.
- ^ Flinders 1814, pp. 196–215.
- ^ Tindale 1925–1926, pp. 61–62.
- ^ Tindale 1974, pp. 224–225.
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