[RNLD] Karama

[Doug Marmion]

That would Kurrama, a Ngayarta language of the Pilbara: https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/w36 <https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/w36>

Did Lockwood ever get over that way? His nearest would have been the travel described in ’The Lizard Eaters’.


-Doug



> On 21 Nov 2018, at 9:23 am, David Osgarby <david.osgarby at uqconnect.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Margaret,
> 
> Here's a possible lead on "Karama". Brown (1912, 144) records "Karama"
> as a western group of the Yindjibarndi people: "The more easterly part
> of the Injibandi tribe call themselves Kârama or Korama and are so
> spoken of by the Binigura who adjoin them." Tindale (1940, 204) later
> references Brown on this: "Loc.: Valley of Fortescue River east of
> Millstream. This is also regarded as a westerly (not easterly)
> subtribe of the Indjibandi."
> 
> Brown, A. R. 1912. ‘The Distribution of Native Tribes in Part of
> Western Australia’. Man 12: 143–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/2788273.
> Tindale, Norman B. 1940. ‘Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities
> Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Distribution of Australian
> Aboriginal Tribes: A Field Survey’. Transactions of the Royal Society
> of South Australia 64 (1): 231.
> https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/129844#page/235/mode/1up.
> 
> David
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:26 PM Margaret Carew
> <margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Karama is a suburb of Darwin. This is one of a number of suburbs named after Indigenous languages and clan groups.
>> 
>> When I consult the NT Placenames register it says this:
>> 
>> Karama is a Aboriginal tribal name, one of a number that Douglas Lockwood suggested might be used in 1964.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any more information about the provenance of this name?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> ———————————————
>> 
>> Dr Margaret Carew
>> 
>> Linguist, CALL
>> Division of Higher Education and Research
>> 
>> Batchelor Institute – Desert People’s Centre campus
>> 
>> tel: 08 8951 8344
>> email: margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.au | www.batchelor.edu.au
>> 
>> Both-Ways Tertiary Education and Research
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Osgarby [ˈɔskəˌbiː]
> Research Associate, School of Languages and Cultures
> The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072
> ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)
> m: +61 432 962 476

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