The Awarai (Warray) are 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
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
.
Language
The Norwegian explorer
Knut Dahl
image:KnutDahl.jpg, Knut Dahl Knut Dahl (28 October 1871 – 11 June 1951) was a Norway, Norwegian zoology, zoologist and explorer who made important bird collections in northern Australia.
Early years
Dahl grew up at Hakadal in Akershus, Norway, ...
wrote down a short list of vocabulary of the
Awarai language.
Country
The Awarai tribal lands took in some of territory, between Mount Shoebridge and the Central Tableland. Their northern boundary was 46 miles south of Darwin, on the
Darwin River near the
Adelaide–Darwin railway line and 10 miles north of
Rum Jungle. The southern limits were at Brocks Creek, where their border met that of the
Awinmul
The Awinmul were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern reg ...
.
Social organization
The Warai had arrangements to supply the Wogait with women for marriage.
People
According to
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 ...
, they stood in fear of the
Agigondin horde of the
Wulwulam, which however incorporated them eventually as a subtribe.
Alternative names
* ''Awarrai, Awarra''
* ''Warai, Warei, Warrai''
Source:
Some words
* ''nguk'' (1) tobacco (2) shit.
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory