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Wangaaypuwan
The Wangaaypuwan, also known as the Wongaibon or Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan, are an Aboriginal Australian people who traditionally lived between Nyngan, the headwaters of Bogan Creek, and on Tigers Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks and west to Ivanhoe, New South Wales. They are a clan of the Ngiyampaa nation.
The tribal ethnonym derives from their word for "no", variously transcribed worjai, wonghi or wangaay.
They spoke a distinct dialect of the Ngiyambaa language. The last known speaker was a woman called "Old Nanny", from whom a list of sixty words was collected. She died sometime around 1914.
Like other Ngiyampaa people such as the Wayilwan, they also referred to themselves according to their home country.
According to anthropologist Norman Tindale, the Wangaaypuwans' traditional lands extended over some 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) of territory, taking in the headwaters of the Bogan River, the Tiger's Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks. Their area encompassed Trida, Narromine, Nyngan, Girilambone, Cobar, and Gilgunnia. The western boundary lay around Ivanhoe and near the Neckarboo Range. Their southern borders ran to Trundle. When severe drought struck they were known to venture into Wiradjuri land, to their west, on the Lachlan River and Little Billabong Creek..
According to an early observer, A. L. P. Cameron, the Wangaaypuwans' social divisions were as follows:
The Wangaaypuwan intermarried with the Wiradjuri, and the marriage pattern, again according to Cameron, was as follows:
Cameron elsewhere states that Ipatha, Butha, Matha and Kubbitha were the female equivalents of Ipai, Kumbu, Murri and Kubbi.
Wangaaypuwan
The Wangaaypuwan, also known as the Wongaibon or Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan, are an Aboriginal Australian people who traditionally lived between Nyngan, the headwaters of Bogan Creek, and on Tigers Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks and west to Ivanhoe, New South Wales. They are a clan of the Ngiyampaa nation.
The tribal ethnonym derives from their word for "no", variously transcribed worjai, wonghi or wangaay.
They spoke a distinct dialect of the Ngiyambaa language. The last known speaker was a woman called "Old Nanny", from whom a list of sixty words was collected. She died sometime around 1914.
Like other Ngiyampaa people such as the Wayilwan, they also referred to themselves according to their home country.
According to anthropologist Norman Tindale, the Wangaaypuwans' traditional lands extended over some 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) of territory, taking in the headwaters of the Bogan River, the Tiger's Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks. Their area encompassed Trida, Narromine, Nyngan, Girilambone, Cobar, and Gilgunnia. The western boundary lay around Ivanhoe and near the Neckarboo Range. Their southern borders ran to Trundle. When severe drought struck they were known to venture into Wiradjuri land, to their west, on the Lachlan River and Little Billabong Creek..
According to an early observer, A. L. P. Cameron, the Wangaaypuwans' social divisions were as follows:
The Wangaaypuwan intermarried with the Wiradjuri, and the marriage pattern, again according to Cameron, was as follows:
Cameron elsewhere states that Ipatha, Butha, Matha and Kubbitha were the female equivalents of Ipai, Kumbu, Murri and Kubbi.