The Wakaman(Tindale) otherwise spelt Wagaman are an
Indigenous Australian people of the state of
Queensland. According to some authorities, they may be interchangeable with the group identified by ethnographers as the
Ewamin
The Ewamin or ''Agwamin'' are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Language
Their language, now extinct, was formerly thought to be interchangeable with Wamin. Peter Sutton's fieldwork in the early 1970s enabled him to dr ...
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Country
The Wakaman are a savannah dwelling people of the headwaters of the
Lynd River, whose northern extension ran to
Mungana and the neighbourhood of
Chillagoe. To the east their frontiers were on the
Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...
, as far as
Almaden. The western limits lay around Dagworth. On their southern flank, the frontier was around the area of
Mount Surprise (near Brooklands). They were also present at Crystalbrook and
Bolwarra. In Norman Tindale's estimation, they had some of tribal land.
Social organization
The Wakaman tribe was divided into
hordes of which two names at least survive.
* ''Okenyika.''
* ''Tjapatja.''
Alternative names
* ''Wagaman.''
* ''Wakkamon.''
* ''Warkaman, Warkeeman, Warkeemin.''
* ''Warkamin, Warkemon, Warkeemon.''
* ''Wataman.''
* ''Okenyika.''
* ''Tjapatja.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland