The Mitaka (alternatively Mithaka) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Country
In Norman Tindale's calculations, the Mitaka, a Channel Country people around Lake Machattie, are assigned a tribal domain of some 4,800 square miles (12,000 km) from Durrie in the south northwards as far as Glengyle. Their eastern limits ran close to Monkira, while the western frontier was at Kalidawarry.
Alternative names
- Mithaka
- Mittaka
- Mittuka
- Marunga
- Mit:aka (putatively a Dieri exonym)
- Marrala/ Marranda (language names)
- Murunuta
- Midaga
Notes
Citations
- Tindale 1974, p. 181.
- Tindale 1974, p. 182.
Sources
- Fraser, A. (31 May 1897). "Mulligan River dialect". Australasian Anthropological Society. 1 (6): 123.
- Fraser, A. (21 November 1899). "Moon myth". Science of Man. 2 (10): 194.
- Fraser, A. (21 February 1901a). "Jupiter: an aboriginal star myth". Science of Man. 4 (1): 8–9.
- Fraser, A. (21 August 1901b). "How the aborigines about Kalliduwarry make rain". Science of Man. 4 (7): 116–117.
- Fraser, A. (22 November 1901c). "Meilaroo—place of perpetual darkness". Science of Man. 4 (10): 167.
- Fraser, A. (23 May 1902). "Kornkee doctor: Mulligan River". Science of Man. 5 (4): 68.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Mitaka (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.