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Wanamara (QLD)
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| | Location | Headwaters of Flinders River, east to Richmond; south to the Divide and to Kynuna; west to the Williams River near Cloncurry; north to Cambridge Downs and Dalgonally. Their country is principally an open grassland with broad and sandy river channels. They did not have the rites of circumcision and subincision. Davidson (1938) shows a name Quippen-bura near Richmond on the eastern border of this tribe which may be an northeastern horde. |
| Co-ordinates | 141°50'E x 21°10'S |
| Area | 13,000 sq. m. (33,800 sq. km) |
| References | MacGillibray in Curr, 1887; Parry-Okeden, 1897; Roth, 1897, 1905; Giglioli, 1911; Kelly, 1935; Davidson, 1938; Sharp, 1939; Tindale, 1940. |
| Alternative Names | Wunamara, Woonamurra, Woonomurra, Unamara, Oonoomurra, ? Quippen-bura. |
This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact. |
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Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations
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Identifier AA 338/1/25
Date 24 April 1963 - 30 July 1963, 3 September 1962 - 30 August 1963, 1965, 26 May 1976 and 1981
Quantity 6 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.2x26.2 cm, 702 pages with 2 inserts
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/21
Date 1968 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
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