Kuku-Warra

See also: Kokowara language

The Kokowara were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Name

The ethnonym, applied to them by other tribes, namely Kokowara, means 'rough speech'. Their autonym, or word for themselves, had not been ascertained as of 1974.^[1]

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Kokowara had some 1,800 square miles (4,700 km²) of tribal land on the Normanby River, extending south from Lakefield to Laura and the Laura River.^[1] Their central camping area was at a place called Daidan on the Deighton River.^[2]

Alternative names

• Kookawarra
• Coo-oo-warra
• Gugu-Warra
• Laura-Deighton tribe^[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 177.
2. Hale & Tindale 1933, p. 70.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
• Cole, Noelene (2004). "Battle Camp to Boralga: a local study of colonial war on Cape York Peninsula, 1873-1894" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 28: 156–189.
• Dutton, H. S. (22 January 1901). Carroll, A. (ed.). "Goa. Miorli. Coo-coowarra". Science of Man and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. 3 (12). Sydney: 208–209 – via Trove.
• Hale, H. M.; Tindale, N.B. (1933). "Aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland". Records of the South Australian Museum. 5 (1). Adelaide: 64–116.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kokowara (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.