Kwatkwat

The Kwatkwat were an indigenous Australian tribe of the State of Victoria, though some scholars consider them part of the broader Yorta Yorta/Pangerang macrogroup. ^[a]

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Kwatkwat's tribal territories cover roughly 1,800 square miles (4,700 km²), running along the southern bank of the Murray River, in a stretch of land that ran from just above the Goulburn River junction southwards around Indigo Creek at Barnawartha. The strip included the junction of the King and Ovens rivers. ^[2]

Alternative names

• Quart-Quart
• Emu Mudjug tribe.(?) ^[b]
• Pikkolatpan ^[2]

Some words

• pikor (emu). ^[2]

Notes

1. 'We do not think that much reliance can be placed on Tindale's classification in this area.' ^[1]
2. This identification has been challenged on the grounds that the available evidence suggests the reported 'Emu Mudjug' tribe spoke a different language from the variety of Yorta Yorta believed to be spoken by the Kwakkwat, and they appear to have spoken a version of Wiradjuri. ^[3]

Citations

1. Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 5, n.7.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 206.
3. Bowe & Morey 1999, p. 5, n7..

Sources

• Bowe, Heather; Morey, Stephen (1999). The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) language of the Murray Goulburn: including Yabula Yabula. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN   978-0-858-83513-9.
• Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1887). Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent (PDF). Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres.
• Smyth, Robert Brough (1878). The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania (PDF). Vol. 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres, gov't printer.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kwatkwat (VIC)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN   978-0-708-10741-6.