Umiida
The Umiida, also written Umida and Umede, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of north Western Australia.
Language
[edit | edit source]The Umiida spoke one of the dialects of the (western) Worrorra language.[1] What little is known of it, and Ungarrangu, was taken down by Howard Coate in the 1960s.[2]
Country
[edit | edit source]Norman Tindale's estimate of their tribal domains assigns them 1,800 square miles (4,700 km2), along the Yampi Sound coastline and its inlets, as far south as Cone Bay. In a northerly direction, they possessed the islands from Koolan to Macleay. Their westward extension went as far as Bathurst Island, Bayliss Island, and those in Strickland Bay. Their inland domains went only as far as the watershed.[3]
Social organization and life
[edit | edit source]The Umiida were a nomadic rafter people who harvested the maritime resources off the many islands in their area, together with the Djaui and Unggarranggu, tribes with whom they had amicable relations.[3]
Mythology
[edit | edit source]Like other Worrorra neighbouring peoples the Umiida belonged to Wandjina/Wunggurr cultural complex where the Dreaming imagined both wandjina, fresh-water creator beings who were custodians of key sites, and a common Worrorran rainbow serpent Wunggurr.[4]
History of contact
[edit | edit source]A number of the Umiida were removed to Beagle Bay and died there. People of part Umiida descent are known to live in Broome.[3]
Alternative names
[edit | edit source]- Umeda, Umidi
- Aobidai (Unggarranggu exonym)
- Umi:da
- Oken
- Okat
- Okwata
- Okata, Okada (an alternative Umiida autonym, used by the Unggarranggu for the language both shared)[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Bowern 2016, p. 278.
- ^ McGregor 2013, p. 18.
- ^ a b c d Tindale 1974, p. 257.
- ^ Bowern 2016, p. 279.
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