Luthigh
The Lotiga, also known as the Okara, were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of North Queensland.
Country
[edit]Lotiga country, calculated to extend over some 400 square miles (1,000 km2), was situated around the upper Dulhunty tributary of the Ducie river and McDonnell Telegraph Station,[1] between the Paterson and Moreton stations on the Cape York Telegraph Line.[2]
People
[edit]Ursula McConnel suggested that the Okara tribe mentioned by Lauriston Sharp,[3] as belonging to the Jathaikana type of social organization, might be the same as the Lotiga.[4] Norman Tindale equated the two on the basis of McConnel's provisory conjecture.[1]
Alternative names
[edit]- Okara (?)
- Oharra[1]
Notes
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 179.
- ^ McConnel 1939, p. 57.
- ^ Sharp 1939, p. 258.
- ^ McConnel 1939, p. 57, n.8.
Sources
[edit]- McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x. JSTOR 40327720.
- McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x. JSTOR 40327867.
- Parry-Okeden, William (1897). Report on the North Queensland aborigines and the native police. Edmond Gregory, government printer.
- Sharp, R. Lauriston (March 1939). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia". Oceania. 9 (3): 254–275. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x. JSTOR 40327744.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Lotiga (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.