Gugu Rarmul

See also: Gugu Rarmul language

The Gugu Rarmul were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland, one of several whose speech was called Gugu Yawa ('Possum language').

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Kokojawa had 3,000 square miles (7,800 km²) of territory. They lived southeast of the Morehead River down to Laura. Due south their boundary was on the south to North Palmer River and the Great Dividing Range. They were present at the upper Mossman and Kennedy rivers.^[1]

Alternative names

• Djauan
• Kokorarmul
• Jouon
• AkuRarmul
• Bindaga (generic term for both the Kokojawa and several other tribes south of Princess Charlotte Bay).^[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 176.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
• Hale, H. M.; Tindale, N.B. (1933). "Aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland". Records of the South Australian Museum. 5 (1). Adelaide: 64–116.
• Roth, W. E. (1897). Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kokojawa (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.