Kungadutji (QLD)

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Location: Cooper Creek north of Durham Downs; east to Mount Howitt and Kyabra Creek; northwest to near Lake Yamma Yamma. Mathews (1898) infers that they and the Karengapa both lived in the area north and east of Tibboburra. It seems likely that the text of his paper is garbled.

Co-ordinates: 142°5'E x 26°25'S

Area: 2,800 sq. m. (7,300 sq. km.)

References: Heagney in Curr, 1886; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6464); Elkin, 1931; Tindale, 1940.

Alternative Names: Kungaditji, Kungarditchi, Kunatatchee.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

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

Item AA 338/18/26 - Cooper Creek (3342)

Item AA 338/26/48/1-10 - JG Breen letter to NB Tindale relating to the distribution and language of Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australian 'tribes'