Tjungundji Explained

See also: Tjungundji language. The Tjungundji or Tjongkandji are an Indigenous Australian people of central and western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.

Country

The Tjongkandji tribe were known as a Mapoon tribe, whose lands extend along and inland from the Port Musgrave coast over an area of 150mi2 on the lower Batavia River, extending west of its mouth southwards for some 15 miles, namely from Cullen Point, known in their language, according to Walter Roth's transcription as Tratha-m-ballayallyana to Janie Creek.

Alternative names

• Tjungundji/ Tyongandyi/ Chongandji/ Tjongangi/ Tjungundji/
• Joonkoonjee/Joongoonjie
• Chunkunji/ Chinganji/
• Ngucrand (perhaps a horde).

Notes and references

References

• Social and individual nomenclature . Roth . Walter E.. . Walter Roth . . 18 . 79–106 . 15 November 1910 . 10.3853/j.0067-1975.8.1910.936 .
• The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York . Thomson . Donald F. . Donald Thomson . . 1933 . 63 . 453–537 . 10.2307/2843801 . 2843801 .
• Notes on a Hero Cult from the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland . Thomson . Donald F. . Donald Thomson . . 1934 . 64 . 217–235 . 10.2307/2843808 . 2843808 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Tjongkandji (QLD) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/tjongkandji.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .