Tjungundji
The Tjungundji or Tjongkandji were an Indigenous Australian people of central and western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.[1]
Country
The Tjongkandji tribe were known as a Mapoon tribe,[2] whose lands extended along and inland from the Port Musgrave coast over an area of 150 square miles (390 km2) on the lower Batavia River, extending west of its mouth southwards for some 15 miles, namely from Cullen Point, known in their language, according to Walter Roth's transcription as Tratha-m-ballayallyana[a] to Janie Creek.[3]
Alternative names
- Tjungundji/ Tyongandyi/ Chongandji/ Tjongangi/ Tjungundji/
- Joonkoonjee/Joongoonjie
- Chunkunji/ Chinganji/
- Ngucrand (perhaps a horde).
Notes and references
Explanatory notes
Notes
- ^ Tindale 1974.
- ^ a b Roth 1910, p. 96.
- ^ Thomson 1934, p. 218.
References
- Roth, Walter E.. (15 November 1910). "Social and individual nomenclature" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum:North Queensland Ethnography (18): 79–106.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Thomson, Donald F. (1933). "The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 63: 453–537. JSTOR 2843801.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Thomson, Donald F. (1934). "Notes on a Hero Cult from the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 64: 217–235. JSTOR 2843808.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Tjongkandji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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