Totj

See also: Trotj language

The Totj (alternatively Trotj^[1]) were an Aboriginal Australian people of far northern Queensland.

Country

Their country spread over some 600 square miles (1,600 km²) of territory from the Upper Mission River and Cox Creek (middle Batavia River). It covered York Downs, and extended south to as far as Merluna.^[2]

Alternative name

• ? Kauwala^[2]

Citations

1. Y37 Trotj at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Tindale 1974, p. 186.

References

• McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x. JSTOR 40327744.
• McConnel, Ursula H. (1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x. JSTOR 40327744.
• McConnel, Ursula H. (December 1950). "Junior Marriage Systems: Comparative Survey". Oceania. 21 (2): 107–145. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1950.tb01709.x. JSTOR 40328279.
• Sharp, R. Lauriston (March 1939). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia". Oceania. 9 (3): 254–275, 439–461. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Totj (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.