Yawarrawarrka
The Yawarrawarrka (also written Yawarawarka, Jauraworka) were an in
Indigenous people of South Australia
.
Country
According to the calculations of Norman Tindale the Yauraworka's tribal lands encompassed some 5,600 square miles (15,000 km2), running north of Cooper Creek to Haddon Downs and taking in Cordillo Downs and Cadelga. Their eastern extension penetrated the sandhills east of Goyder Lagoon, running up to roughly Arrabury. Their southeasterly frontier was close to Innamincka, though the Ngurawola also claimed this area.[1]
Alternative names
- Jauroworka,, Yarrawaurka, Yarrawurka
- Yauroka
- Yauarawaka, Yarroworka
- Jaurorka, Yaurorka, Yarawuarka
- Yerawaka, Yowerawoolka, Yowerawarrika..[1]
Some words
- mulla (tame dog).
- anya (father).
- umma (mother).[2]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 212.
- ^ Cornish 1886, p. 22.
Sources
- "Aboriginal South Australia". Government of South Australia.
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Cornish, W. H. (1886). "Warburton River: Cooper's Creek, to the eastward of its northern branch; also Koongi lake." (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. 22–25.
- Eylmann, Erhard (1908). Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (PDF). Berlin: D.Reimer.
- Gason, Samuel (1895). "Of the tribes, Dieyerie, Auminie, Yandrawontha,Yarawuarka, Pilladapa". JSTOR 2842215.
- Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia. Macmillan Publishers.
- JSTOR 2843089.
- JSTOR 983545.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.