Warkawarka

Map of Victoria Aboriginal tribes

The Warkawarka, or as preferred by the community Weki Weki, are an Australian Aboriginal tribe whose traditional lands are located in Victoria, Australia.

Their language may have been Wadi Wadi,, this is unclear.

Name

The name seems to derive from their word for 'no' (warki=warka)

Country

The Warkawarka tribal lands extended over approximately 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²), from Tyrrell Creek and Lake Tyrrell, southwards to Warracknabeal and Birchip. Their western boundary lay along Hopetoun, and they also ranged over the Morton Plains.

Alternative names

• Werkawerka.
• Waikywaiky,
• Weki-weki,
• Wengenmarongeitch.
• Mirdiragoort.
• Booroung,Boorong.
• Wirtu,Wirtoo.

Some words

• wirtu. (man).

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
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• Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1887). 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 (PDF). Vol. Volume 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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• Smyth, Robert Brough (1878). The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania (PDF). Vol. Volume 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres, gov't printer. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Stanbridge, William Edward (1858). "On the Astronomy and Mythology of the Aborigines of Victoria" (PDF). Transactions Philosophical Institute Victoria. 2: 137–140. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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