Wakabunga
The Wakabunga are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Language
[edit | edit source]Norman Tindale referred to material by two early correspondents, Urquhart and O'Reilley, in a publication by E. M. Curr for details about the Wakabunga and their language, but the word-list is not considered to contain elements of this tongue, about which the general belief is that no information survives. It has been suggested by Barry Blake however,[1] that a word-list compiled in the Wakabunga domain by Curr's brother Montagu Curr,[2] belong to a Mayi dialect. From this it has been inferred that Wakabunga may have belonged to the Mayi language family.
Country
[edit | edit source]The Wakabunga traditional lands covered an estimated 4,900 square miles (13,000 km2) in the area of the Upper Leichhardt River and Gunpowder Creek.[3]
People
[edit | edit source]According to Norman Tindale they were related to the Kalkatungu.[3] They were crocodile hunters, stalking freshwater crocodiles with spears on the upper Leichhardt.[4]
Alternative names
[edit | edit source]- Workabunga
- Workoboongo
- Wakobungo, Waukaboonia
- Waggabundi
- Waggaboonyah
- Kabikabi[3]
Notes
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ Blake 1990, p. 52.
- ^ Curr 1886, pp. 318–320.
- ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 187.
- ^ Roth 1897, p. 92.
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