Djakunda (QLD)

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Location: Between upper Boyne and Auburn rivers; north to Hawkwood; south to Dividing Range and vicinity of Kumbia. These people speak a language rather similar to Barbaram and physically seem similar to the Barrinean people. Some parts of their country possessed bunya pine (Araucaria) forests.

Co-ordinates: 151°0'E x 26°5'S

Area: 2,600 sq. m. (6,800 sq. km.)

References: Tindale, 1940; Emmerson, 1955 MS, 1962 MS (in letters); Winterbotham, 1956 MS (map).

Alternative Names: Djakanda, Djaka-nde, Dakundair.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/7/2/58 - Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

Item AA 338/7/2/59 - Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

Item AA 338/7/2/60 - Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

Item AA 338/8/20 - Parallel Vocabularies

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/15/129 - Map of Queensland coast from Bundaberg to Brisbane

Item AA 338/18/24 - Brisbane (3340)

Item AA 338/18/25 - Charleville (3341)

Item AA 338/23/3 - Sketch map showing 'tribes' in the vicinity of Brisbane, southeastern Queensland

Item AA 338/26/19/1-9 - 'Extracts from final copy of paper by Winterbotham July, 1956, to be used for tribal paper'