Wodiwodi

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Not to be confused with Wadi Wadi.

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, a "half-caste", 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]

Alternative spellings and names[]

  • Woddi Woddi

Whardi Whardi

  • Illawarra (a regional name)[4]

Some words[]

  • būnbāri (boy)
  • būrrū (kangaroo)
  • jiruŋgaluŋ (white man)[3][8]
  • kudjaguz (child)
  • mirriguŋ (dog)

Landscape features[]

The Wodi Wodi Walking Track, Stanwell Park, New South Wales is named after the Wodiwodi people.[9]

Notes[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ https://www.kiama.nsw.gov.au/library/explore-kiama/aboriginal-kiama
  2. ^ Ridley 1875, pp. 111–114.
  3. ^ a b Malone 1878, pp. 264–265.
  4. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 201.
  5. ^ Wollongong City Council.
  6. ^ Malone 1878, p. 263.
  7. ^ Ridley 1875, p. 111.
  8. ^ Ridley 1875, pp. 111–112.
  9. ^ 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. 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.
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