Yungkurara

See also: Yungkurara language

The Yungkurara were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated Yungkjurara lands as occupying 500 square miles (1,300 km²) around the Bloomfield River. They were the indigenous people of Weary Bay. Their southern limits were at Cape Kimberley. They were also present in the area of Spring Vale.

Social organization

The names of at least two hordes are known:-

• Bulponara
• Yokarra

Alternative names

• Yungkarara
• Junkara
• Koko Dyungay
• Yungurara
• Yung-Kurara
• Koko-aungu
• Kokodjilandji
• Kokojalanja
• Kokoyalunyu
• Koko Ialunia
• Koko Ialiu
• Bulponara, Bulpoonarra
• Yokarra

Some words

• kai'a tame dog
• nundin (father)
• nammo (mother)
• wangar (white man)

Sources

• Hughes, Thomas (1886). "Weary Bay" (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. 393–395.
• McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x. JSTOR 40327744.
• McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x. JSTOR 40327867.
• Sharp, R. Lauriston (March 1939a). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia". Oceania. 9 (3): 254–275. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x. JSTOR 40327744.
• Sharp, R. Lauriston (June 1939b). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia (Continued)". Oceania. 9 (4): 439–461. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00248.x. JSTOR 40327762.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Jungkurara (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.