Maikulan
TheMaikulanwere anindigenous Australianpeople of the state ofQueensland.They have sometimes been confused with theMaithakari.
Name
[edit]According to an earlier resident of the area, the tribalautonymreferred to thenative brushturkey.[1]
Country
[edit]Norman Tindalecalculated that they had roughly 7,600 square miles (20,000 km2) of territory, fromthe middle Norman,YapparandClararivers northwards to Milgarra. Their eastern boundary lay near theGregory Range,[a]while the western frontier was atIffleyandCanobie.[2][3]
History of contact
[edit]With the onset of white settlement, the tribe's demographic statistics suggested an original population of some 400 people. Within two decades, the numbers had been halved, with 200 remaining, as a result of what one observer stated was 'the rifle and syphilis'.[1]A branch of the Maikulan soon shifted down theNorman Riverto settle aroundNormanton,which misled some early reports to take them to be indigenous to the latter area.[2]
Alternative names
[edit]- Maikulung, Maikolon
- Makulu
- Mygoolan, Mykoolan, Mycoolon, Micoolan, Miccoolin, Mikkoolan, Mikoolun
- Mykulau(typo)
Source:Tindale 1974,p. 180
Some words
[edit]- meekoolan(white man)
- mirage(mother)
- yadoo(father)
- yalbal(wild/tame dog)
Source:Lamond 1886,p. 324
Notes
[edit]- ^This is confused with theGregory Riverby E. M. Curr in his transcription of the report by Lamond (Lamond 1886,p. 322)
Citations
[edit]- ^abLamond 1886,p. 322.
- ^abTindale 1974,p. 180.
- ^Palmer 1884,p. 277.
Sources
[edit]- Armit, W. E. (1886)."The Mouth of the Leichardt River"(PDF).InCurr, Edward Micklethwaite(ed.).The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent.Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 300–305.
- Howitt, Alfred William(1884). "Remarks on the Class Systems collected by Mr. Palmer".Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.13:335–347.JSTOR2841896.
- Howitt, Alfred William(1904).The native tribes of south-east Australia(PDF).Macmillan.
- Lamond, M.S. (1886)."Between the Gregory and the Leichardt Rivers"(PDF).InCurr, Edward Micklethwaite(ed.).The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent.Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 322–325.
- Mathews, R. H.(1898a)."Group divisions and initiation ceremonies of the Barkungee tribes".Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.32.Sydney: 241–255.doi:10.5962/p.359301.S2CID259756893.
- Mathews, R. H.(1898b)."Australian divisional systems".Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.32.Sydney: 66–87.doi:10.5962/p.359289.S2CID259614451.
- Mathews, R. H.(October–December 1900). "The Origin, Organization and Ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines".Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.39(164): 556–578.JSTOR983776.
- Palmer, Edward(1884)."Notes on some Australian tribes".Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.13:276–347.doi:10.2307/2841896.JSTOR2841896.
- Sharp, Lauriston R.(March 1939). "Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia".Oceania.9(3): 254–275.doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x.JSTOR40327744.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett(1974)."Maikulan (QLD)".Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names.Australian National University Press.