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| Type: | Text |
| Title: | Wita-Wattingga (Wita-wartingga) |
| Other Titles: | Place name Summary (PNS) 5.04.01/08 |
| Author: | Schultz, Chester |
| Publisher: | Chester Schultz |
| Issue Date: | 3-Apr-2016 |
| Abstract: | Wita-wattingga (or Wita-wartingga in KWP’s New Spelling 2010) is probably the original Kaurna form of a hybrid Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna name “Witawatang” which the Ngarrindjeri elder Albert Karlowan gave to ethnologists Tindale and Berndt in the 1930s. According to him, this was the name of Rapid Head or its vicinity. It was also a place where Tjirbuki carried the dead body of his nephew as he emerged from a forest: an incident which is not mentioned in the published literature about Tjirbuki. The Kaurna form Wita-wattingga means ‘in the midst of Peppermint gumtrees’. |
| Keywords: | Kaurna language Ngarrindjeri language Rapid Head Tjirbuki Peppermint gum trees Rapid Bay region Aboriginal place-names South Australia geography Kaurna Warra Pintyandi |
| Appears in Collections: | Southern Kaurna Place Names Essays |
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