The Bodaruwitj , also rendered Bedaruwidj or Potaruwutj , and referred to in some early sources as the Tatiara , are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia . David Horton believed they were the group his sources referred to as the Bindjali people. Austlang refers to Bindjali / Bodaruwitj as alternative names for the same language.
16-463: Potaruwutj is an autonym , meaning in their language, "wandering" (- wutj is a suffix meaning "man"), referring to their continuous shifting of their campsites throughout the mallee scrubland. Relying on two informants, Clarence Long (Milerum) and Alf Watson, Tindale estimated that the Potaruwutj's lands covered 3,000 square miles (7,800 km), extending westwards from Naracoorte down to within
32-663: A pastoral station on Bodaruwitj territory near Padthaway , and in later reports called the Indigenous people of that district the Coolucooluck , but also Padthaway. He defined these Coolucooluck as denizens of the area between Salt Creek , Galt's Station and Padthaway. The Bodaruwitj (Tatiara) men had a repute among other tribes, including the Yaraldi , for being well-endowed and having strong sexual appetites, just as native outsiders attributed to their women large labia majora . Some of this
48-514: A retaliatory hunt among several different groups. The large band of warriors managed to track the Tatiara down at Piwingang and only few survived the onslaught. Notwithstanding traditions that the Tatiara and Yaraldi did not intermarry, records indicate that intermarriage did take place between them and the Yaraldi Piltindjeri clan. A Scottish businessman and immigrant, Robert Lawson, established
64-571: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Meintangk people The Meintangk people are an Aboriginal Australian people of south-eastern South Australia , often classified as a subgroup of the Ngarrindjeri people. According to ethnologist Norman Tindale 's 1974 work, Meintangk land extended across an estimated 1,500 sq mi (3,900 km ). It stretched from Lacepede Bay , northwards some 12 miles (19 km) from Kingston to
80-444: Is fragmentary. At least five clans are known to have constituted the Potaruwutj group: They practised neither circumcision nor ritual avulsion of the front teeth . According to material gathered by Ronald and Catherine Berndt , as large number of Tatiara were killed at Piwingang near Tailem Bend after the former in a raid on a Ngarrindjeri camp. The affected group had too few warriors to retaliate and went south to organise
96-521: Is reflected in a number of recorded songs. The pelekaw song form is one in southeastern South Australia that makes a defiant accusation in the expectation it will be challenged. One notable case concerned the rules of exogamous exchange regarding women. A dispute with the Coorong lagoon Tanganekeld, whom the Potaruwutj called Tenggi , arose when the Tatiara Wepulprap clan of the Potaruwutj suspected
112-516: The Granite Rock. To the south its coastal boundaries lay on Cape Jaffa and inland eastwards to Lucindale , Blackford, Keilira , and Naracoorte . The inland territory from Lake Hawdon to Mosquito Creek also formed part of their land. The Meintangk comprised at least seven groups . Among these were the Paintjunga who were located at Penola . According to Tindale, other names used to refer to
128-538: The Ngarkat predominated. Like the Tanganekald and Jarildekald , the Potaruwutj marked out their territory with stones or cairns . The Potaruwutj clans, following a usage shared by these two tribes, named the major features of their territory by a name that referred to a distinctive characteristic of the zone, suffixed with a word like -injeri (belonging to) or - orn (an abbreviation of the word for "man"] attached to denote
144-700: The Tenggi people women chasers They are mating throughout the tribe We call the Tenggi people women chasers They are all chasing and mating. The neighbouring Meintangk , who sided with the Tanganekeld, on hearing this rude insinuation, composed a slanderous weritjinj variant on the pelekaw song which both slandered the Potaruwutj and challenged them to battle at the traditional combat grounds at Nunukapul (Telauri Flat) near Marcollat station . This song, chanted while men danced imitating their enemies coupling with dogs, rang: Big man Dongaganinj makes his own rules About
160-426: The area possessed. The suffix -injeri had the meaning of "belonging to" while -orn is said to be a contraction of korn meaning man or person, According to William Haynes, writing about the Tatiara in 1887, their numbers were thought to have amounted to some 500 at the beginning of white settlement , but only scattered remnants of the several distinct groups had survived within a few decades, and knowledge of them
176-545: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up autonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Autonym may refer to: Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym Autonym (botany) , an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name See also [ edit ] Nominotypical subspecies , in zoology, a similar concept to autonym in botany Xenonym -onym Autonomy Topics referred to by
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208-465: The stupid ( deun ) spirits ( powoqko ) are bad marriage makers Weritjamini was another influential Potaruwutj headman, associated with Dongaganinj. In this region's lore, the spirit, powoqko, was, on death, believed to travel northwest and cross over the sea to dwell on the island of Karta , and the implications of the original language were so abusive that the two groups would not intermarry for another two generations. autonym From Misplaced Pages,
224-401: The third inland dune range of the Coorong area , some 10 miles from the coastline. The northern reaches touched Tatiara . It included Bordertown , Wirrega, and Keith . Ecologically, Potaruwutj territory was less fertile and suffered from lower rainfall than neighbouring areas. The Ngarkat foraged to their north, with the Potaruwutj also present south of the main belt of mallee where
240-618: The woman Manggeartkur Dongaganinj helps himself Frightens Manggeartkur to come to him M! m! wi! wo! A resolutive battle was arranged, and seven warriors were left dead on the Nunukapul field. The Tanganekeld then took up the challenges, and composed a song: The Tatiara people we hear Have erect penises and swollen testicles Our women are tired of carrying them Hei! ja! Weritjamini has an erect penis and big testes His women carry them for him Bad woman Manggeartkur lies for any man We men will not sleep with her Weritjamini and all
256-453: The women they gave to the former were maltreated and subject to the sorcery of lethal bone-pointing . The reality was one of resentment over a perceived break-down in one-on-one exchanges arising from women being sent to the wrong, rather than the right, clan they were contracted to marry into. A Potaruwutj big man with a repute for powerful magic , Dongaganinj, composed a pelekaw refrain which articulated these feelings of grievance. We call
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