Watiwati
The Watiwati are an indigenous Australian aboriginal people traditionally living on both sides of the Murray River, from Victoria to New South Wales.
Language
The tribe's name comes from a reduplication the word for 'no' (wati), typical of tribal names in this area.
Country
The Watiwati's lands enclosed some 2,000 sq. miles of territory north and south of the Murray River and Swan Hill. It reached northwards towards Moolpa, N.S.W. To the west its boundary lay at Piangil in Victoria.[1] To the east were the related Wemba-Wemba, north east the Nari-Nari, north northwest the Muthi Muthi, and to their west the Tatitati.[2]
Social structure
The Watiwati were formed of several clans, one horde called the Dacournditch was located in the area between Tyntynder and Swan Hill.
Alternative names
- Wathiwathi, Wattewatte, Wotti-wotti.
- Withaija
- Wohdi Wohdi
- Woani (= 'man')
- Woonyi
- Dacournditch
- Biangil (the name for Piangil).[1]
Notes
Citations
- 1 2 Tindale 1974.
- ↑ Hercus 1989, p. 44.
References
- Beveridge, Peter (1865) [First published 1861]. "A few notes on the dialects, habits, customs and mythology of the Lower Murray aborigines A few notes on the dialects, habits, customs and mythology of the Lower Murray aborigines". Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 6: 19–74.
- Hercus, Luise (1989). Three Linguistic Studies from Far South-Western NSW (PDF). 13. Aboriginal History. pp. 45–62.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Watiwati (VIC)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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