Wodiwodi
The Wodiwodi also pronounced Whardi Whardi (according to an interview with Joan Mc Grady- early 1990s) peoples are the Indigenous Australian people of New South Wales, a sub-group of the Dharawal nation.[1]
Language
The Wodiwodi language, considered a dialect of Tharawal was briefly described by William Ridley in 1875,[2] who obtained this information, via her husband, from the wife of John Malone, Lizzie Malone, whose mother was a Shoalhaven Indigenous person.[3]
Country
The Wodiwodi are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had some 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2) of country in the area north of the Shoalhaven River and reaching to Wollongong; their territory took in the Illawarra district,[4] including Lake Illawarra, Berkeley and Hooka Creek. Their descendants are considered one of the custodians of the land in this area.[5]
Mythology
The Wodiwodi word for the creator figure called Baiame by contiguous tribes, was Mirrirul, from the word mirīr, meaning "sky."[6][7]
Some words
Landscape features
The Wodi Wodi Walking Track, Stanwell Park, New South Wales is named after the Wodiwodi people.[9]
Notes
Citations
- "Kiama Library".
- Ridley 1875, pp. 111–114.
- Malone 1878, pp. 264–265.
- Tindale 1974, p. 201.
- Wollongong City Council.
- Malone 1878, p. 263.
- Ridley 1875, p. 111.
- Ridley 1875, pp. 111–112.
- VisitNSW.com.
Sources
- "Aboriginal Communities". Wollongong City Council. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- Brown, M. A.; Brown, G. W. (21 September 1899). "Aboriginal words and meanings". Science of Man. 2 (4): 141–142.
- Malone, John (1878). Ridley, William (ed.). "Australian Languages and Traditions". Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 7: 232–274, 263–265. doi:10.2307/2841001. JSTOR 2841001.
- Mathews, R. H. (1898). "Initiation ceremonies of Australian tribes.Appendix Nguttan initiation ceremony". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 37: 54–73.
- Organ, Michael K.; Speechley, Carol (1997). "Illawarra Aborigines - An Introductory History". In Hagan, J. S.; Wells, A. (eds.). A History of Wollongong. University of Wollongong Press. pp. 7–22.
- Ridley, William (1875). Kámilarói, and other Australian languages (PDF). Sydney: T. Richards, government printer.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wodiwodi (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- "Wodi Wodi Walking Track - Stanwell Park Attraction". VisitNSW.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.