Kurtjar Explained

The Kunggara, also known as Kuritjara, are an indigenous Australian people of the southern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.

Language

The Kunggara spoke Gurdjar, which had two dialects, Gunggara and Rip. Gavan Breen did a salvage study of the language, drawing on information obtained during an interview with one of the last speakers, Elsie McKillop, conducted at Bloodwood.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Kunggara's tribal territory covered some 1900mi2, centered on theStaaten River and running south to the Smithburne River and Delta Downs. The limits of their inland extension lay around Stirling and Lotus Vale.

Neighbouring tribes were the Maikulan and Maijabi.

Alternative names

• Gilbert River tribe
• Gunggara
• Koonkurri
• Kuri'tjari
• Kutjar
• Ungorri

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Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Division of tribes in the Northern Territory . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 1899 . 33 . 111–114 .
• Notes on Some Australian Tribes . Palmer . Edward . Edward Palmer (Australian politician) . . 1884 . 13 . 276–347 . 10.2307/2841896 . 2841896 .
• Book: Palmer, Edward . The Cloncurry River . 1886 . Edward Palmer (Australian politician) . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 330–335 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf .
• Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia . Sharp . R. Lauriston . Lauriston Sharp . . March 1939a . 9 . 3 . 254–275 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x . 40327744 .
• Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia (Continued) . Sharp . R. Lauriston . Lauriston Sharp . . June 1939b . 9 . 4 . 439–461 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00248.x . 40327762 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Kunggara (QLD) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kunggara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .