Warakamai (QLD)

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Location: Coast at Halifax Bay; inland to the slope of the Coast Range; north to Ingham and Lucinda Point; south to the Black River 20 miles (32 km.) north of Townsville. Seven hordes are listed by Cassady (1886).

Co-ordinates: 146°15'E x 18°55'S

Area: 600 sq. m. (1,600 sq. km.)

References: Reeves in Fison and Howitt, 1880; Cassady and Johnstone in Curr, 1886; Giglioli, 1911; Tindale, 1940; Doolan, 1964 MS; Dixon, 1966.

Alternative Names: Waragamai, Wargamay, Wargamaygan, Bungabara (name of one of seven hordes), Ikelbara (a horde name), Herbert River tribe.

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 338/7/2/33 - 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

Item AA 338/7/2/37 - Queensland Tribes T-Z, Native

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 338/15/41 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'

Item AA 338/18/11 - Townsville (3219)

Item AA 338/23/2 - Sketch map showing 'tribes' in the Cairns district of northeastern Queensland

Item AA 346/4/20 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

Item AA 689/9/16 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.