Mitaka people explained

See also: Mitaka language. The Mitaka (alternatively Mithaka) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Country

In Norman Tindale's calculations, the Mitaka, a Channel Country people around Lake Machattie, are assigned a tribal domain of some 4800mi2 from Durrie in the south northwards as far as Glengyle. Their eastern limits ran close to Monkira, while the western frontier was at Kalidawarry.

Alternative names

• Mithaka
• Mittaka
• Mittuka
• Marunga
• Mit:aka (putatively a Dieri exonym)
• Marrala/ Marranda (language names)
• Murunuta
• Midaga

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Mulligan River dialect . Fraser . A. . Australasian Anthropological Society . 31 May 1897 . 1 . 6 . 123 .
• Moon myth . Fraser . A. . Science of Man . 21 November 1899 . 2 . 10 . 194 .
• Jupiter: an aboriginal star myth . Fraser . A. . Science of Man . 21 February 1901a . 4 . 1 . 8–9 .
• How the aborigines about Kalliduwarry make rain . Fraser . A. . Science of Man . 21 August 1901b . 4 . 7 . 116–117 .
• Meilaroo—place of perpetual darkness . Fraser . A. . Science of Man . 22 November 1901c . 4 . 10 . 167 .
• Kornkee doctor: Mulligan River . Fraser . A. . Science of Man . 23 May 1902 . 5 . 4 . 68 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Mitaka (QLD) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/mitaka.htm .