Rungarungawa

See also: Rungarungawa language

The Rungarungawa were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, Rungarungawa lands comprised some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) in the area of Roxburgh Downs Station and the Pituri Creek.[1]

History of contact

Around 1880, some years after their lands were taken up for white colonization, the Rungarungawa's number were estimated to be approximately 120.[2][3]

Alternative names

  • Dungadungara
  • Ringarungawah[a]
  • Runga-Rungawah
  • Rungo Rungo[3][1]

Some words

  • birri-birri (white man)
  • numma (mother)
  • peealee (wild dog)
  • toota (tame dog)
  • yapperi (father)

Source: Craigie 1886, p. 356

Notes

  1. ^ Edward Micklethwaite Curr's transcription of a report by Craigie, considered by Tindale to be a misprint, (Craigie 1886, p. 350)

Citations

  1. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 185.
  2. ^ Craigie 1886, p. 350.
  3. ^ a b Krzywicki 1934, p. 310.

Sources

  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
  • Craigie, James (1886). "Roxburgh Downs, Lower Georgina" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 356–357.
  • Krzywicki, Ludwik (1934). Primitive society and its vital statistics. Macmillan Publishers.
  • Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
  • Tibbett, Kevin (2002). "Archaeological analysis of stone axe exchange networks in the Lake Eyre Basin during the mid- to late Holocene". Australian Archaeology (55): 22–29. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.856.9215.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Rungarungawa (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.