Warriyangga Explained

The Wariangga, also written Warriyangka, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region in Western Australia.

Language

The Warriyangka spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the dialect continuum being the Thiin, Djiwarli and Tharrkari.

Country

According to Norman Tindale's estimation the Wariangga's tribal lands stretched over approximately 1700mi2 in the Gascoyne region, covering areas of the upper Lyons River, and including also Gifford and Minnie Creeks, Edmund and the area east of Maroonah. Tindale states also that they held to a strict maintenance of boundaries. Their neighbours were the Tenma to the north, the Dyiwali to their northeast, the Ninanu directly east, the Watjarri southeast, the Malgaru at their southern limits, and the Tharrkari due west.

Social organization

The Wariangga did not practice circumcision. Their marriage system was described by Daisy Bates.

Alternative names

• Wariengga, Warianga, Warienga, Warrijangga
• Wariwongga, Wari-wonga, Warriwonga
• Woorienga, Woorenga

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Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Book: Austin, Peter . A Grammar of the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia . 2015 . Peter Austin (linguist) . .
• Report of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science . Bates . Daisy . 1914 . Daisy Bates (author) . Social Organization of some Western Australian Tribes . 14 . https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15368519 . . 387–400.
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Wariangga (WA) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wariangga.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wariangga.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6.