Pallanganmiddang people

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The Pallanganmiddang, otherwise known as the Waywurru, were an Indigenous Australian people of North-eastern Victoria, [1] in the state of Victoria, Australia. Recent scholarship has suggested that In Norman Tindale's classic study his references to a Djilamatang tribe and their language arguably refer in good part to the Pallanganmiddang (or Dhudhuroa)

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Name

-midhang/-middang (mittang) occurs as an ethnonym-marking suffix attached to several tribal and clan names in the area. [2] It may be the equivalent of the more southerly Kulin term –wurrung, "mouth/speech". [3] A. W. Howitt's map of the area refers to a Balaung Karar group, where Balaung may be an echo of Pallang- in the Pallanganmiddang ethnonym. [4]

Language

Pallanganmiddang is classified by R. M. Dixon as one of two members of the Upper Murray Group, the other being Dhudhuroa. [5] It was probably spoken by people inhabiting the area the northwest of the Dhudhuroa, though the overlap of vocabulary between the two languages appears to be low, about 10.7% [6] A vocabulary of 46 words with the title "Pallanganmiddah" was provided by Thomas Mitchell, a resident of Tangambalanga, as early as 1878. [7] [8] A.W.Howitt first asserted that their language was "utterly different" from that of surrounding peoples, and modern research has confirmed that it lacked any close affinity with the other languages of that area. [9]

Country

Robert Smyth's 1878 map located a PallunganMiddah group southeast of Wodonga, in the area of Tangambalanga about the terrain of the northern Kiewa River and Tallangatta around the Mitta Mitta River. Howitt's mention [10] of a Balaung Karar group to the south-west of Wodonga has been taken, by Barry Blake, as a reference to (Balaung/Pallungan) to the same people. [4]

Society

The Pallanganmiddang, in part at least, appear to have adopted the Kulin patrimoiety system with its eaglehawk (Puntyil) –crow (Waang/waa) [lower-alpha 1] moieties. [9] This division, meaning that names were inherited through the father rather than the mother was a characteristic of Central Victorian Aboriginal culture, but deviated from the general norm in South-East Australia. [11] Diane Barwick identified at least two clans, who used the Kulin terms rather than the corresponding Pallanganmiddang terminology (warrimu/berontha) to denote their respective moieties, a fact that suggests they intermarried with the contiguous southern and western Kulin groups.

History of contact

The earliest possible reference to this group might be a mention in the papers of George Augustus Robinson, Victorian Protector of Aborigines in the 1840s, to the Pal-ler a miiter. [4]

Some words

Notes

  1. ↑ Also written more in older sources Bunjil-Waang- (Koch, Hercus & Kelly 2018, pp. 154ff.)
  2. ↑ balak a clan-marking suffix in Kulin languages. (Clark 2009, p. 210)

Citations

  1. ↑ Blake & Reid 2002, pp. 177–210.
  2. ↑ Blake & Reid 2002, p. 180.
  3. ↑ Clark 2009, p. 210.
  4. 1 2 3 Blake & Reid 1999, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Dixon 2004, p. xxxv.
  6. ↑ Blake & Reid 2002, p. 183.
  7. ↑ Mitchell 1878, p. 67.
  8. ↑ Blake & Reid 1999, p. 15.
  9. 1 2 Koch, Hercus & Kelly 2018, p. 158.
  10. ↑ Howitt 1904, p. 827.
  11. ↑ Koch, Hercus & Kelly 2018, p. 154.
  12. ↑ Barwick 1984, p. 118.
  13. ↑ Koch, Hercus & Kelly 2018, pp. 155–156.
  14. 1 2 Blake & Reid 1999, pp. 24–25.
  15. ↑ Blake & Reid 1999, p. 24.
  16. ↑ Clark 2009, p. 208.

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