From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kula , also known as the Kurnu, were an
indigenous Australian people of the state of
New South Wales .
Country
The Kula are estimated by
Tindale to have held sway over roughly 4,900 square miles (13,000 km2 ) of territory, predominantly on the western side of the
Darling River , running from near
Bourke to
Dunlop . They were also around the
Warrego River and at
Enngonia and
Barringun on the border with Queensland. Their western reach ran close to
Yantabulla .
Alternative names
Cornu
Gu:nu
Guemo
Guno, Gunu
Komu
Koonoo
Kornoo
Kumu (language name applied to the Kula but also to other Darling River tribes)
Kuno
Noolulgo
Source:
Tindale 1974 , p. 195
Some words
thirlta (kangaroo)
karle/kulli (dog)
[a]
Notes
^
R. H. Mathews noted down a list of parallel words for the terms used in common speech, calling this variant
sacred idiom 'mystic speech', a secret language used for initiatory purposes. In this language, the word for kangaroo was burnki , and for dog munnidi, for example. (
Mathews 1902 , pp. 157–158)
Citations
Sources
Bonney, Frederic (1884).
"On Some Customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling, New South Wales" .
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 13 : 122–137.
doi :
10.2307/2841717 .
JSTOR
2841717 .
Howitt, Alfred William (1904).
The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF) .
Macmillan .
Mathews, R. H. (January 1898). "Initiation Ceremonies of Australian Tribes".
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society . 37 (157): 54–73.
JSTOR
983694 .
Mathews, R. H. (1902).
"Languages of some native tribes of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria" .
Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales . 36 : 135–190, 154–159.
Mathews, R. H. (1904a).
"Langage des Kurnu, tribu d'indigenes de la Nouvelle Galles du Sud" . Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris . 5 (5): 132–138.
doi :
10.3406/bmsap.1904.7855 .
Mathews, R. H. (1904b).
"Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of New South Wales and Victoria" .
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales . 38 : 203–381.
Mathews, R. H. (1904c).
"Die Multyerra-Initiations Zeremonie" . Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft Wien . 34 : 77–83.
Mathews, R. H. (1906).
"Notes on some native tribes of Australia" .
Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales . 40 : 95–129.
Pechey, W. A. (1872). "Vocabulary of the Cornu Tribes of Australia".
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 1 : 143–147.
JSTOR
2840949 .
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (July–December 1918). "Notes on the Social Organization of Australian Tribes".
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 48 : 222–253.
doi :
10.2307/2843422 .
JSTOR
2843422 .
Ridley, William (1873).
"Report on Australian Languages and Traditions" .
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 2 : 257–275.
doi :
10.2307/2841174 .
JSTOR
2841174 .
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974).
"Kula (NSW)" . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names .
Australian National University Press .
ISBN
978-0-708-10741-6 .
Aboriginal language groups Aboriginal nations Aboriginal peoples Aboriginal clans Aboriginal languages