Yawarrawarrka Explained

See also: Yawarrawarrka language. The Yawarrawarrka (also written Yawarawarka, Jauraworka) were an in Indigenous people of South Australia.

Country

According to the calculations of Norman Tindale the Yauraworka's tribal lands encompassed some 5600mi2, running north of Cooper Creek to Haddon Downs and taking in Cordillo Downs and Cadelga. Their eastern extension penetrated the sandhills east of Goyder Lagoon, running up to roughly Arrabury. Their southeasterly frontier was close to Innamincka, though the Ngurawola also claimed this area.

Alternative names

• Jauroworka,, Yarrawaurka, Yarrawurka
• Yauroka
• Yauarawaka, Yarroworka
• Jaurorka, Yaurorka, Yarawuarka
• Yerawaka, Yowerawoolka, Yowerawarrika.

Some words

• mulla (tame dog).
• anya (father).
• umma (mother).

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: Aboriginal South Australia . . .
• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . . .
• Book: Cornish, W. H. . Warburton River: Cooper's Creek, to the eastward of its northern branch; also Koongi lake. . 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 . 2 . 22–25 . J. Ferres . Melbourne . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf .
• Book: Eylmann, Erhard . Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien . 1908 . D.Reimer . Berlin .
• Of the tribes, Dieyerie, Auminie, Yandrawontha,Yarawuarka, Pilladapa . Gason . Samuel . . 1895 . 24 . 167–176 . 2842215 .
• Book: Howitt, Alfred William . The native tribes of south-east Australia . Alfred William Howitt . 1904 . .
• Legends of the Dieri and Kindred Tribes of Central Australia . Howitt . Alfred William . Siebert . Otto . Alfred William Howitt . . January–June 1904 . 34 . 100–129 . 10.2307/2843089 . 2843089 .
• Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . January 1900 . 39 . 161 . 78–91+93 . 983545 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Jauraworka (SA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/jauraworka.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .