Wadjiginy
{{Short description|Indigenous Australian people group}}
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The Wadjiginy, also referred to historically as the Wogait,{{sfn|Ford|1990|p=1}} are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, specifically from just north of modern-day Darwin. The Wadjiginy are a saltwater people who describe themselves as {{lang|wdj|wagatj}} 'beach-dwellers' from the Batjamalh word {{lang|wdj|wagatj}} 'beach'.
Name
The standard early ethnographic literature referred to the Wadjiginy with numerous variations of the word Wogait,{{sfn|Ford|1990|p=1}}{{sfn|Ford|1998|p=27}} a term taken to mean 'sea folk' by early investigators{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=238}} but which actually covers several tribes such as the Emmiyangal which later research has shown to be imprecise. Their ethnonym is derived from {{lang|wdj|wagatj}}, a Batajamalh term for 'beach'. The modern descriptor used among the tribe is Wadyiginy.
Country
The Wadjiginy territory was around Anson Bay, from the debouchment of the Daly River northwards as far as Point Blaze, and was estimated by Norman Tindale to range over roughly {{convert|200|mi2|km2}}.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=238}} Their inland extension is estimated at 20 miles from the coast.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=238}}
Alternative names
- Ami
- Amijangal
- Murinwargad (Murinbata term){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=238}}{{sfn|Ford|1990|p=1}}
- Wagaidj, Wagite, Waggait, Waggite
- Wagatsch, Wa(o)gatsch
- Waggote, Waggute
- Wargad (Murinbata exonym)
- Wogite
- Worgait, Worgite, Worgaid, Wagait
Notes
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=Citations=
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Sources
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- {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia
| last = Basedow | first = Herbert
| author-link = Herbert Basedow
| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| location = Adelaide
| via = BHL
| year = 1907 | volume = 31 | pages = 1–62
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54644#page/13/mode/1up
}}
- {{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land
| last = Dahl | first = Knut | year = 1926
| author-link = Knut Dahl
| publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London
| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf
| pages = 72–98
}}
- {{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien
| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard | year = 1908
| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin
| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf
| via = Internet Archive
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = On the Manners, Customs, etc., of some Tribes of the Aborigines, in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the West Coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia
| last = Foelsche | first = Paul
| author-link = Paul Foelsche
| journal = The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
| location = Adelaide
| year = 1895 | volume = 24 | pages = 190–198
| jstor = 2842215
}}
- {{Cite thesis| type = MA thesis| title = The Phonology and Morphology of Bachamal (Wogait)
| last = Ford | first = Lysbeth Julie | year = 1990
| publisher = Australian National University
| url = https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10815/8/Ford_L_Master_1990.pdf
}}
- {{Cite thesis| type = Doctoral thesis| title = A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia
| last = Ford | first = Lysbeth Julie | year = 1998
| publisher = Australian National University
| url = https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10796/7/Ford_Thesis_1998.pdf
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia
| last = Mackillop | first = Donald
| author-link = Mary MacKillop
| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| location = Adelaide
| via = BHL
| year = 1893 | volume = 17 | pages = 254–264
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54642#page/268/mode/1up | format = PDF
}}
- {{Cite book| title = For the Sake of a Song: Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories
| last1 = Marett | first1 = Allan
| last2 = Barwick | first2 = Linda
| last3 = Ford | first3 = Lysbeth Julie
| year = 2013
| publisher = Sydney University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=f62OWsyL-1sC&pg=PA73
| isbn = 978-1-920-89975-2
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary paper (continued)
| last = Stanner | first = W. E. H.
| author-link = William Edward Hanley Stanner
| journal = Oceania
| date = June 1934 | volume = 4 | issue = 4 | pages = 458–471
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00122.x | jstor = 27976164
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Wogait (NT)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wogait.htm
}}
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