Wiilman
Wiilmanare an indigenousNoongarpeople from theWheatbelt,Great SouthernandSouth Westregions of Western Australia. Variant spellings of the name includeWilman,Wirlomin,WilmenandWheelman.Wiilmanis theendonym.[1]
Language
[edit]Their original language, also known asWiilman,is extinct and poorly documented, but is generally believed to have been part of theNyungar subgroup.[1]
Country
[edit]The Wiilman originally occupied an estimated 6,700 square miles (17,000 km2) of territory, taking in the future sites ofCollie,Boddington,Pingelly,Wickepin,Narrogin,Williams,Lake Grace,Wagin,andKatanning.[2]
The northern boundary of the Wiilmen is from aroundWuraming,through Gnowing (north ofWandering) andDatteningto Pingelly. The eastern boundary included Wickepin,Dudininand Lake Grace. In the south, the boundary of Wiilmen country includedNyabing(originally Nampup), Katanning,WoodanillingandDuranillin.[3]
Mythology
[edit]Ethel Hassellwrote extensively on the "Wheelman tribe", her term for the Wiilman, but her manuscript was neglected until the American anthropologistDaniel Sutherland Davidsoncame across it while researching Australian archives in 1930. Davidson arranged for Hassell's work to be published in instalments in the journalFolklore(1934-1935).
According toNorman Tindale,much of the material ascribed to the Wiilman was gathered from their southern neighbours, theKorengand actually reflects Koreng culture.[3]
Alternative names
[edit]The neighbouring Koreng people referred to the Wiilman by theexonymJaburu,meaning "northerners/north-westerners".
Some early colonial sources referred to them as "the Williams tribe".[3]
Abbreviated forms of Wiilman have sometimes been used, including Weal, Weel.[4]
Citations
[edit]Sources
[edit]- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia".AIATSIS.
- Bates, Daisy (1914)."Social Organization of some Western Australian Tribes".Australian Association for the Advancement of Science.14:387–400.
- "Boodjar Nyungar Placenames in the South-West of Western Australia: Wiilman Tribal Region".University of Western Australia. n.d.Retrieved9 February2018.
- Curr, Edward Micklethwaite(1886).Curr, 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(PDF).Vol. 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres.
- Davidson, D. S.;McCarthy, Frederick D.(1957). "The Distribution and Chronology of Some Important Types of Stone Implements inWestern Australia".Anthropos.52(3/4): 387–400.JSTOR40454078.
- Hassell, Edith (September 1934a). Davidson, D. S. (ed.). "Myths and Folktales of the Wheelman Tribe of South-Western Australia".Folklore.45(3): 232–248.doi:10.1080/0015587X.1934.9718560.JSTOR1256168.
- Hassell, Edith (December 1934b). Davidson, D. S. (ed.). "Myths and Folktales of the Wheelman Tribe of South-Western Australia. 11".Folklore.45(4): 317–341.doi:10.1080/0015587X.1934.9718572.JSTOR1257857.
- Hassell, Edith (June 1935a). Davidson, D. S. (ed.). "Myths and Folk-Tales of the Wheelman Tribe of South-Western Australia. III".Folklore.46(2): 122–147.doi:10.1080/0015587X.1935.9718592.JSTOR1257649.
- Hassell, Edith (September 1935b). Davidson, D. S. (ed.). "Myths and Folk-Tales of the Wheelman Tribe of South-Western Australia: IV".Folklore.46(3): 268–281.doi:10.1080/0015587X.1935.9718605.JSTOR1257385.
- Nind, Scott(1831). "Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and Adjoining Country".Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London.1:21–51.doi:10.2307/1797657.JSTOR1797657.
- Thieberger, Nicholas (1993).Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region.Pacific Linguistics.ISBN978-0-858-83418-7.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries"(PDF).Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia.September 2016.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett(1974)."Wiilman (WA)".Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names.Australian National University.Archived fromthe originalon 20 March 2020.