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The Umiida, also written Umida and Umede, were an
The Umiida, also written Umida and Umede, were an indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
people of the Kimberley region of north Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
Language
The Umiida spoke one of the dialects of the (western)Worrorra language
Worrorra, also written Worora and other variants, and also known as Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western Australia. It encompasses a number of dialects, which are spoken by a group of people know ...
. What little is known of it, and Ungarrangu, was taken down by Howard Coate in the 1960s.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
's estimate of their tribal domains assigns them , along the Yampi Sound
Yampi Sound is a part of the Indian Ocean off the coast of north-western Australia, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is located between King Sound and Collier Bay. It lies between the Yampi Peninsula and the islands of the Buc ...
coastline and its inlets, as far south as Cone Bay. In a northerly direction, they possessed the islands from Koolan to Macleay. Their westward extension went as far as Bathurst Island, Bayliss Island, and those in Strickland Bay. Their inland domains went only as far as the watershed.
Social organization and life
The Umiida were a nomadic rafter people who harvested the maritime resources off the many islands in their area, together with the Djaui and Unggarranggu, tribes with whom they had amicable relations.Mythology
Like other Worrorra neighbouring peoples the Umiida belonged to Wandjina/Wunggurr cultural complex where the dreaming imagined both ''wandjina,'' fresh-water creator beings who were custodians of key sites, and a common Worrorranrainbow serpent
The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common motif in the art and religion ...
''Wunggurr''.
History of contact
A number of the Umiida were removed to Beagle Bay and died there. People of part Umiida descent are known to live in Broome.Alternative names
* ''Umeda, Umidi'' * ''Aobidai'' (Unggarrangguexonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
)
* ''Umi:da''
* ''Oken''
* ''Okat''
* ''Okwata''
* ''Okata, Okada'' (an alternative Umiida autonym
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
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
, used by the Unggarranggu for the language both shared)
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Sources
* * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia