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Awarai

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The Awarai (Warray) are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

The Norwegian explorer Knut Dahl wrote down a short list of vocabulary of the Awarai language.

Country

The Awarai tribal lands took in some 1,400 square miles (3,600 km2) of territory, between Mount Shoebridge and the Central Tableland.[1] Their northern boundary was 46 miles south of Darwin,[a] on the Darwin River near the Adelaide–Darwin railway line and 10 miles north of Rum Jungle. The southern limits were at Brocks Creek, where their border met that of the Awinmul.[2]

Social organization

The Warai had arrangements to supply the Wogait with women for marriage.[3]

People

According to Norman Tindale, they stood in fear of the Agigondin horde of the Wulwulam, which however incorporated them eventually as a subtribe.[2]

Alternative names

  • Awarrai, Awarra
  • Warai, Warei, Warrai

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 221

Some words

  • nguk (1) tobacco (2) shit.[4]

Notes

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