Rungarungawa Explained

See also: Rungarungawa language. The Rungarungawa were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, Rungarungawa lands comprised some 1200mi2 in the area of Roxburgh Downs Station and the Pituri Creek.

History of contact

Around 1880, some years after their lands were taken up for white colonization, the Rungarungawa's number were estimated to be approximately 120.

Alternative names

• Dungadungara
• Ringarungawah
• Runga-Rungawah
• Rungo Rungo

Some words

• birri-birri (white man)
• numma (mother)
• peealee (wild dog)
• toota (tame dog)
• yapperi (father)

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Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Book: Craigie, James . Roxburgh Downs, Lower Georgina . 1886 . 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 . 356–357 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf .
• Book: Krzywicki, Ludwik . Primitive society and its vital statistics . 1934 . Ludwik Krzywicki . .
• Book: Roth, W. E. . Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines . 1897 . Walter Roth . Edmund Gregory, Government Printer . Brisbane . PDF .
• Archaeological analysis of stone axe exchange networks in the Lake Eyre Basin during the mid- to late Holocene . Tibbett . Kevin . . 2002 . 55 . 22–29 . 10.1.1.856.9215 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Rungarungawa (QLD) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/rungarungawa.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .