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The Wurla, also written Ola, or Waladjangarri, are an indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia

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Name

Though often written Ola, Wurla is now considered the recommended transcription for this tribal ethnonym. [1]

They are also known under a number of alternative names: [2]

Country

Norman Tindale estimated their tribal grounds as extending over about 7,800 square miles (20,000 km2). The Wurlu occupied the northern side of the Wunaamin Miliwundi Range. They lay east of the Isdell Range, and their reach extended northwards as far as the Phillips Range and the headwaters of the Hann and upper Fitzroy rivers. To the east, their territory ran up to Bluff Face Range, in a line that linked directly Elgee Cliffs and the Burramundy Range. [3] According to information gathered by Joseph Birdsell, the Wurla in penetrated down the Chapman and Durack rivers to Karunjie severed the traditional links between the Ngarinjin and Gija. [2]

Social organisation

The Wurla were divided into clans.

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References

  1. ↑ McGregor 2013, p. 31.
  2. 1 2 3 Tindale 1974, p. 255.
  3. ↑ Tindale 1974, pp. 254–255.

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