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Wenambal (WA)
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| | Location | Upper Forrest and Patrick rivers; north to Mount Casuarina and Seppelt Range; west to headwaters of the Berkeley River in a range called Manungu by aborigines. They live chiefly on the plateau and higher ranges of the headwaters of the Berkeley River, n.n. ['Djuri] the real course of which is said to be very different from that shown on some present-day maps; west to about 127°20'E and south to Forrest River headwaters and the Milligan Range but not extending east to Forrest River Mission. There are sixteen or more hordes that together are referred to also as the Balangara. Gwini, a general term, also heard as Kuini and Guji:ni has a known meaning 'east.' It is applied to this and other eastern tribes by the people of the west. The term has caused some confusion in the past. |
| Co-ordinates | 127°35'E x 14°50'S |
| Area | 2,500 sq. m. (6,500 sq. km) |
| References | Tindale, 1930, 1953 MS; Elkin, 1933; Kaberry, 1935, 1937; Capell, 1940; Hernandez, 1941; Birdsell, 1954 MS; Coaldrake, 1954 MS. |
| Alternative Names | Wenambal (language term applied north and west of Forrest River Mission but excluding the Miwa), Wanum-baal, Wembria, Wemrade, Namula (horde upstream from Mission), Kulunggulu (a northern horde name), Bugai (a southern horde name), Jura (eastern horde name but may belong to Jeidji tribe), Marokorei (western horde name), Mirray-gona, Bemba (means north, hence Bembara), Jan-gala (a northeastern horde), Guragona (southeastern horde name but may belong to Jeidji), Guragoona, Waringnari [sic] (derogatory name reminding of the Waringari = cannibal term farther inland to the south), Kular (means 'northwest'; name applied by coastal people of Cambridge Gulf), Kulari, Mulngane (Berkeley River; perhaps a horde, applied also at Kalumburu to people who come from the northwest), Mulgane. |
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 338/1/19/2
Date 15 July 1953 - 30 October 1953, 1953-55, 1 Oct 1958, 1961, 1964-65, 1979, 1981-82
Quantity 5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.1x26.8 cm,
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Identifier AA 338/1/19/3
Date 1952 - 1954, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982
Quantity 4.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 23.0x26.4cm, 538 pages, 4 inserts and 2 loose items
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/122
Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1949
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 74.5x99.5 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/123
Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1949
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 74.0x96.0 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/7
Date 1965 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'
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Identifier AA 338/26/61
Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 page
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Series AA689/01 - Bound volumes of expedition journals, notes, anthropometric and morphometric data on Australian and foreign collections and blood grouping data.
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Identifier AA 689/1/6
Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with gray binding, 46pp., 31x20 cm
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Identifier AA 689/1/7/2
Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with red binding, 44pp., 31.8x20.2 cm
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 689/9/17
Date 1952 - 1954, dates in annotations
Quantity 64 cm, 3 Albox boxes and one black folder with index
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