Kurung people
The Kurung were identified as an
State of Victoria by Norman Tindale
. The theory that they constituted an independent tribe has been challenged with modern scholarship generally considering them a clan, associated to one of two major tribes. Their language is unconfirmed.
Name
Tindale, prefacing his remarks with an admission that '(t)he triangle between
Wathaurung.[2]
Diane Barwick notes that Tindale's distinction of Kurung and Wurundjeri (Woiworrung) where the former is now subsumed under the latter, raised a Wurundjeri clan to full autonomous tribal status. He did so, she suggests, from inferences drawn on the basis of a single manuscript,Wathaurung Marpeang-bulluk clans's territory, adjacent to the lands of the Wurundjeri Kurung-jang-baluk and Gunung-William-baluk [5]
Country
Tindale assigned to the Kurung an estimated 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) of land extending from the western side of
Alternative names
- Kurunjang.
- Kurung-jang-baluk.
- Coorong.
- Jibberin (a language for the horde speaking the Bacchus Marsh dialect)
- Barabal (though used of the Kurung, according to Tindale it was used of the dominant clan et Werribee and Indented Head)
- Barrabool, Barabull.
- Yawangi (referring to an endonym for the Ja:wang located in the You Yangs).[7]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 131.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 132.
- ^ Thomas 1862.
- ^ Blake, Clark & Krishna-Pillay 2001, p. 65.
- ^ Barwick 1984, p. 104 n.7,120-121.
- ^ Canning & Thiele 2010, p. 4.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 206.
References
- Barwick, Diane E. (1984). McBryde, Isabel (ed.). "Mapping the past: an atlas of Victorian clans 1835-1904". JSTOR 24045800.
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- Canning, Shaun; Thiele, Frances (2010). Indigenous Cultural Heritage and History within the Metropolitan Melbourne Investigation (PDF). Victorian Environmental Assessment Council.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Thomas, William (1862). Lexicon of the Australian aboriginal language in the six dialects of Ballaarat, Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne, Gippsland, Mount Gambier, and Wonnin. La Trobe University manuscript collection.