Nawagi (QLD)

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Location: Southwest of Herbert River; principally on the high Sea View Range as far southeast as Harveyside and Reid River; they were rain forest dwellers; they differed from the Warakamai who lived chiefly in coastal sclerophyll forest country; according to Dixon they went to the seashore near Ingham.

Co-ordinates: 145°55'E x 18°55'S

Area: 2,300 sq. m. (6,000 sq. km.)

References: Cassady and Johnstone in Curr, 1886; Giglioli, 1911; Tindale, 1940; Dixon, 1966, 1969 MS.

Alternative Names: Nyawigi, Geugagi.

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 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

Item AA 338/7/1/2 - ‘Barrinean Tribes’

Item AA 338/7/2/33 - Queensland Tribes A-Kon, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/34 - Queensland Tribes Kon-Tal, Native

Item AA 338/7/2/35 - Queensland Tribes Native, Tam-W

Item AA 338/7/2/36 - Queensland Tribes A-R, Native