Mbewum
The Mbewum were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland. They were dispossessed and became extinct soon after colonization.
Language
[edit | edit source]The Mbewum spoke Mbiywom, a northern Paman language[1]
Country
[edit | edit source]The Mbewum had an estimated 600 square miles (1,600 km2) of tribal domain territory on the Upper Watson River, which included Merluna[2] in the area 120 miles south-east of Weipa. Their land, together with that of the Totj was incorporated into a state-run enterprise, the Queensland State Pastoral Station of that name, which by 1916 was running over 12,000 head of cattle.[3][4]
Social organization
[edit | edit source]They had four kinship divisions like other tribes in the area, according to R. H. Mathews.[5]
Alternative names
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxi.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 181.
- ^ Cohen 1988, p. 233.
- ^ May 1994, p. 212, n6.
- ^ Mathews 1900, pp. 131–135.
- ^ Mathews 1900, p. 131.
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