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Wembawemba (NSW)
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| | Location | On Loddon River from Kerang, Vic., north to Swan Hill; on Avoca River south to near Quambatook; northeastward to Booroorban and Moulamein, N.S.W.; near Barham; at Lake Boga and Boort, Vic. Stone lists five hordes centered at Towaninnie, Meelool Station, Lake Boga, Gonn, and Bael Bael. The horde at Gonn on the Murray River had a name Dietjenbaluk (Deitchenballuk) which Stone says meant 'al- ways shifting' while the Melool horde had a name indicating they were a quarrelsome group. |
| Co-ordinates | 144°0'E x 35°20'S |
| Area | 3,200 sq. m. (8,300 sq. km) |
| References | Godfrey in Smyth, 1878; Munro in Smyth, 1878; Smyth, 1878; Curr, 1887; Fawcett in Curr, 1887; Moulamein Magistrates in Curr, 1887; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6468), 1902 (Gr. 6487), 1903 (Gr. 6489); Howitt, 1904; Stone, 1911; Tindale, 1938 MS, 1940; Berndt, 1947; Hercus, 1966, 1970. |
| Alternative Names | (['wemba] = ['wamba] == ['womba] = no), Wamba-wamba (valid alternative), Wamba, Womba, Weumba, Waamba, Waimbiwaimbi, Gourrmjanyuk (horde at Lake Boga), Gorrmjanyuk. |
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 338/1/15/1
Date 14 October 1936 - 1978?, 14 October 1936-26 October 1939, 1950s, 26 March 1968, 1978
Quantity 5.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22x26.5 cm, 799 pages, 27 inserts, 1 loose item
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/53
Date 1940, date in annotation; date of printing unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x76.0 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/169
Date c. 1979 - c. 1980, dates in annotations; date of printing unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x75.0 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/40
Date 1967 - 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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Identifier AA 338/18/41
Date 1964 - 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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Series AA346/04 - Sociological, Anthropological, Vital Statistics and ACER data recorded onto cards by Board for Anthropological Research expedition members, 1923-1963.
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Identifier AA 346/4/20
Date May 1938 - June 1939, some cards have later annotations
Quantity 350 cm, 11 file card drawers containing data cards
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Series AA689/09 - Anthropometric data cards from Board for Anthropological Research expeditions and cranial data cards recorded at numerous institutions
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Identifier AA 689/9/16
Date 1938 - 1939, dates of expedition
Quantity 166 cm, 41 grey Albox folders
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