<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That would Kurrama, a Ngayarta language of the Pilbara: <a href="https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/w36" class="">https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/w36</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did Lockwood ever get over that way? His nearest would have been the travel described in ’The Lizard Eaters’.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Doug<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Nov 2018, at 9:23 am, David Osgarby <<a href="mailto:david.osgarby@uqconnect.edu.au" class="">david.osgarby@uqconnect.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Margaret,<br class=""><br class="">Here's a possible lead on "Karama". Brown (1912, 144) records "Karama"<br class="">as a western group of the Yindjibarndi people: "The more easterly part<br class="">of the Injibandi tribe call themselves Kârama or Korama and are so<br class="">spoken of by the Binigura who adjoin them." Tindale (1940, 204) later<br class="">references Brown on this: "Loc.: Valley of Fortescue River east of<br class="">Millstream. This is also regarded as a westerly (not easterly)<br class="">subtribe of the Indjibandi."<br class=""><br class="">Brown, A. R. 1912. ‘The Distribution of Native Tribes in Part of<br class="">Western Australia’. Man 12: 143–46. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2788273" class="">https://doi.org/10.2307/2788273</a>.<br class="">Tindale, Norman B. 1940. ‘Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities<br class="">Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Distribution of Australian<br class="">Aboriginal Tribes: A Field Survey’. Transactions of the Royal Society<br class="">of South Australia 64 (1): 231.<br class=""><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/129844#page/235/mode/1up" class="">https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/129844#page/235/mode/1up</a>.<br class=""><br class="">David<br class="">On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:26 PM Margaret Carew<br class=""><<a href="mailto:margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au" class="">margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi<br class=""><br class="">Karama is a suburb of Darwin. This is one of a number of suburbs named after Indigenous languages and clan groups.<br class=""><br class="">When I consult the NT Placenames register it says this:<br class=""><br class="">Karama is a Aboriginal tribal name, one of a number that Douglas Lockwood suggested might be used in 1964.<br class=""><br class="">Does anyone have any more information about the provenance of this name?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks<br class=""><br class="">———————————————<br class=""><br class="">Dr Margaret Carew<br class=""><br class="">Linguist, CALL<br class="">Division of Higher Education and Research<br class=""><br class="">Batchelor Institute – Desert People’s Centre campus<br class=""><br class="">tel: 08 8951 8344<br class=""><a href="mailto:margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au" class="">email: margaret.carew@batchelor.edu.au</a> | <a href="http://www.batchelor.edu.au" class="">www.batchelor.edu.au</a><br class=""><br class="">Both-Ways Tertiary Education and Research<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">David Osgarby [ˈɔskəˌbiː]<br class="">Research Associate, School of Languages and Cultures<br class="">The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072<br class="">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)<br class="">m: +61 432 962 476<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>