Watta people
The Watta were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Country
In Norman Tindale 's estimation the Watta held about 3,500 sq. miles of territory, inland around the eastern bank of the South Alligator River, as far east to the headwaters of the East Alligator River. [1]
Social organization and practices
The Watta are notable for the fact that they constitute the most southeastern tribe which refrained from the rites of circumcision in the Northern territory.[1]
Alternative names
Notes
- ^ ’These are all comparatively large communities, but the mountain range beyond is in possession of a people which appears to be more numerous than all the others put together, and which goes by the general name of "Marigianbirik," or people of the mountains. This tribe occupies a great extent of the uplands.’[3]
Citations
- ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 237.
- ^ Elkin, Berndt & Berndt 1951, p. 255.
- ^ Earl 1846, p. 242.
Sources
- Earl, G. Windsor (1846). On the Aboriginal Tribes of the Northern Coast of Australia. Vol. 16. pp. 239–251.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Elkin, A. P.; Berndt, R. M.; Berndt, C. H. (June 1951). Social Organization of Arnhem Land. Vol. 21. Sydney. pp. 253–301.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Watta (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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