The Tjungundji or Tjongkandji are an Indigenous Australian people of central and western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.
Country
The Tjongkandji tribe were known as a Mapoon tribe, whose lands extend along and inland from the Port Musgrave coast over an area of 150 square miles (390 km) on the lower Batavia River, extending west of its mouth southwards for some 15 miles, namely from Cullen Point, known in their language, according to Walter Roth's transcription as Tratha-m-ballayallyana to Janie Creek.
Alternative names
- Tjungundji/ Tyongandyi/ Chongandji/ Tjongangi/ Tjungundji/
- Joonkoonjee/Joongoonjie
- Chunkunji/ Chinganji/
- Ngucrand (perhaps a horde).
Notes and references
Explanatory notes
- tratha was a species of fish while m-ballayallyana denoted 'sheltering underrocks'. This last word was often mistranscribed as 'Tullanaringa' on early maps.
Notes
- Tindale 1974.
- ^ Roth 1910, p. 96.
- Thomson 1934, p. 218.
References
- Roth, Walter E.. (15 November 1910). "Social and individual nomenclature" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum:North Queensland Ethnography (18): 79–106. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.8.1910.936.
- Thomson, Donald F. (1933). "The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 63: 453–537. doi:10.2307/2843801. JSTOR 2843801.
- Thomson, Donald F. (1934). "Notes on a Hero Cult from the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 64: 217–235. doi:10.2307/2843808. JSTOR 2843808.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Tjongkandji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.