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Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the Creator deity, creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many List of Australian Aboriginal group names, different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common Motif (visual arts), motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. Much like the archetypal mother goddess, the Rainbow Serpent creates land and diversity for the Aboriginal people, but when disturbed can bring great chaos. There are many names and stories associated with the serpent, all of which communicate the significance and power (sociology), power of this being within Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Aboriginal mythology, which includes the worldview commonly referred to as The Dreaming. The serpent is viewed as a giver of life through its association with water, but can be a destructive force if angry. The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most common and well-known Aborigin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhangu People
The Dangu (Dhaŋu, Dhangu) are an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, one of many Yolŋu peoples. They are, according to Norman Tindale, to be carefully distinguished from the Djaŋu. Two prominent clans of the Dangu are the Rirratjingu and Galpu clans. Country The extent of Dangu territory could not be established by Tindale, who located them in the general area of Yirrkala Mission, Cape Arnhem, Melville Bay, and Port Bradshaw. Social organisation Like all Yolŋu societies, the Dangu, identified as a grouping of clans sharing similar dialects, were organised according to the ''Dhuwa'' and ''Yirritja'' (''Jiritja'') moieties. Their ethnonymic identity as a unified group was based on their common word for the demonstrative pronoun "this". They are divided into six clans according to which moiety they belong to, of four Dua, and six Yirritja. The Dua moiety: * ''Galpu'' (Gälpu, Galbu, Kalpu) * ''Golumala'' * ''Ngajimil'' (Ngayimil, Ngeimil, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aṉangu
Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly equivalent to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves. The term, which embraces several distinct "tribes" or peoples, in particular the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara groups, is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable: . The term The original meaning of the word is "human being, person", "human body" in a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Languages (which are in the Pama–Nyungan group of languages), in particular Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. It is now used as an Aboriginal endonym by a wide range of Western Desert Language (WDL) peoples to describe themselves. It is rarely or never applied to non-Aboriginal people when used in English, although the word now has a dual meaning in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. It has come to be used also as an exonym by non-Aboriginal Australians to refer to WDL-speaking groups or i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lardil People
The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, the traditional name for Mornington Island), are an Aboriginal Australian people and the traditional custodians of Mornington Island in the Wellesley Islands chain in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Language Lardil, now moribund, belongs to the Tangkic language family. The feature of kinship-sensitive pronominal prefixes had been ignored until they were discovered by Kenneth L. Hale in a study of Lardil. A special second language, Damin, thought of as a tongue created by the Yellow Trevally fish ancestor Kaltharr, and devised in part to mimic "fish talk", was taught during the second degree of initiation (''warama''). This initiation register of specialized Lardil has fascinated linguists: it contained in its phonemic repertoire two types of airstream initiation, a pulmonic ingressive and a labiovelar lingual egressive , unique among the world's languages. The secret language reinscribed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingarda
The Yingkarta or Yingarda people, also written Inggarda and Ingarda, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Language Yinggarda was a Kartu language spoken from the coastal area around Carnarvon through the Gascoyne River to the junction and southwards to the Wooramel River. The earliest record of the languages dates from material collected by an anonymous source and forwarded by Edric Gifford to Edward Curr, who published a list of basic words in 1886. There were two dialects, a northern and southern variety, with marked lexical differences. Down to the end of the 20th century, it was reported that the Carnavon community had a wide knowledge of Yingarda words, but that their use was somewhat restricted. Given the movement of Wadjarri into this area, a people with whom the Yinggarda maintained strong links, the young mix the two vocabularies. Country The Yingkarta's lands, lying between the Gascoyne and Wooramel Rivers in a wedg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubbi Gubbi
The Kabi Kabi people, also spelt Gubbi Gubbi, Gabi Gabi, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people native to South Eastern Queensland. During the Australian frontier wars of the 19th century, there were several mass killings of Kabi Kabi people by settlers. They are now classified as one of several Murri language groups in Queensland. A 2024 determination granted non-exclusive native title rights over an area of land and waters on the Sunshine Coast. Naming As is often the case, ethnonyms distinguishing one tribe from another select the word used by any one group for the concept "no", which is the meaning of ''kabi/gubi/gabi''. However, AIATSIS's Austlang database prefers Gubbi Gubbi. The name ''Gubbi Gubbi'', as shown in early history books, has been used in recent times interchangeably with ''Kabi Kabi''. AIATSIS favours ''Gubbi Gubbi'' as for the language, but also gives other spellings and name variants. but in recent publications has referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunwinggu
The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory. Kunwinjku people generally refer to themselves as "Bininj" (meaning people, or Aboriginal people) in much the same way that Yolŋu people refer to themselves as "Yolŋu". Language They traditionally speak the Kunwinjku language. Country Their original heartland is said to have been in the hilly terrain south of Goulburn Island and their frontier with the Maung running just south of Tor Rock. Their northern extension approached Sandy Creek, while they were also present south-east at the head of Cooper's Creek and part of the King River. In Norman Tindale's scheme, the Kunwinjku were allotted a tribal territory of around in the area south of Jungle Creek and on the headwaters of the East Alligator River. The Gumader swamps near Junction Bay and the creeks east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembarrnga
The Rembarrnga people, also spelt Rembarunga and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi .... Language The Rembarrnga language is a non-Pama-Nyungan language belonging to the Gunwinyguan language family. Country Rembarrnga country covered some , extending from the headwaters of the Mann, Cadell, Wilton, and Blyth rivers, to the arid plateau to the south. Alternative names * ''Rembarrnga, Rembaranga, Rembarnga, Rembranga'' * ''Ranjbarngo, Rainbarngo, Reinbaranga'' * ''Rembarrna'' * ''Maiadi'' * ''Maieli, Majali, Maiali, Maielli'' Notes Citations Sources * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory Arnhem Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalabon People
The Dalabon or Dangbon are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. Name Traditionally the people now called Dalabon had no collective name for themselves, and the term itself derives from the language which members of the community speak. Language The Dalabon language is classified among the far East Arnhem Land language group, and as belonging to the Gunwinyguan language family. It is under severe threat of extinction. One feature of its linguistic culture, the relative absence of nouns for emotions, combined with its rich repertoire (160 lexemes) of emotional verbs and adjectives. Country At the time of European colonialisation, the tribal territory of the Dalabon is thought to have covered some , in south-western Arnhem Land. The anthropologist, Norman Tindale, placed their northern boundary at the upper Goyder River, and their heartland around the headwaters of the Phelp, Rose and Hart rivers. Linguistics scholar, Maïa Ponsonnet, states that, before the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maikulan
The Maikulan were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. They have sometimes been confused with the Maithakari. Name According to an earlier resident of the area, the tribal autonym referred to the native brushturkey. Country Norman Tindale calculated that they had roughly of territory, from the middle Norman, Yappar and Clara rivers northwards to Milgarra. Their eastern boundary lay near the Gregory Range, while the western frontier was at Iffley Iffley is a village in a designated Conservation area (United Kingdom), conservation area in Oxfordshire, England. It lies within the boundaries of the city of Oxford, between Cowley, Oxfordshire, Cowley and the estates of Rose Hill, Oxford, Rose ... and Canobie. History of contact With the onset of white settlement, the tribe's demographic statistics suggested an original population of some 400 people. Within two decades, the numbers had been halved, with 200 remaining, as a result of what one observer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maithakari
The Maikathari (Mayi-Thakurti) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Country The Maithakari had, according to ethnologist Norman Tindale, approximately of tribal territory extending from the Williams River and Cloncurry. Running north, its boundaries touched Canobie on the Cloncurry River The Cloncurry River is situated in the Gulf Country of north west Queensland, Australia. Geography The headwaters of the river rise west of Mount Boorama near Mount Tracey in the Selwyn Range (Australia), Selwyn Range and initially flows nort ..., and extended east to where Julia Creek joins the Cloncurry, and also to Mount Fort Bowen. They were also present at Dalgonally. Social organisation and rites They did not practise either circumcision or subincision. Alternative names * Maiðakuri * Maiðakui * Maidhagudi, Maitakudi * Mayatagoorri * Mythugadi * Majadhagudi * Mythuggadi * Mythaguddi, Mitagurdi, Mittagurdi, Mitagurdi, Mitakoodi, Mittakoodi * Mitrog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windorah
Windorah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. It is one of only three towns in the Shire of Barcoo in Central West Queensland. In the , the locality of Windorah had a population of 104 people. Geography Located downstream from where the Thomson and Barcoo Rivers join to form the multi-channelled Cooper Creek, the Shire covers an area of . The town has a population of 60 people, with a further 40 living at surrounding stations. A landscape of rocky outcrops, multiple sand hills and black soil flood plains make up most of the area surrounding the town. Water in the town follows the outback cycle of boom and bust. During a wet year Cooper Creek may flood more than a half a dozen times, during the dry it becomes a chain of waterholes. Downstream of the town stretches the Cooper Floodplain below Windorah Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for waterbirds when flooded. History Before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
