# Buruna

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Aboriginal Australian people

The **Buruna**, also known as the **Punduna**, are an [Aboriginal Australian](/source/Aboriginal_Australian) people of the [Mid West region](/source/Mid_West_(Western_Australia)) of [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia).

## Language

The Buruna spoke [Burduna](/source/Burduna_language), which belongs to the [Kanyara branch](/source/Kanyara_languages) of [the Pama-Nyungan language family](/source/Pama-Nyungan)

## Society

The societal structure of the Burduna people consisted of four different subsets. Each subset was further divided into 'totems', and each totem was further divided into '*phrartries*'. Individuals within a *phrartry* were assigned gender-specific titles, and these titles were used to address them in the same manner as personal names are used today. A totemic *phrartry* was inherited in a patrilineal manner, i.e., an offspring born to parents from two different *phrartries* was assigned to the *phrartry* of the father. Marriages within the same totem *phrartry* were not allowed.[1]

Often, these totems and *phrartries* interspersed with people from different linguistic backgrounds. For example, the totem 'Snake' included the Burduna-speaking population as well as the Thalanyji-speaking population.[1]

Totems in the societal structure of the Burduna people in the Ashburton district[1] Totem Male name Female name Tribe Emu Wariara Ngogodji Burduna Turkey & Fire Waliri Wilari Burduna Snake Wiarrji Mambulu Burduna, Thalanyji

## Country

According to [Norman Tindale](/source/Norman_Tindale)'s calculation, the Buruna's tribal lands covered about 3,300 square miles (8,500 km2). He places them at [Yannarie River (Pindar Creek)](/source/Pindar%2C_Western_Australia) and southwest as far as Winning Pool and the northern side of the [Lyndon River](/source/Lyndon_River). Their eastern confines lay around Mount Hamlet and [Maroonah](/source/Maroonah). They occasionally ventured into [Tenma](/source/Tenma_people) territory at the [Henry River](/source/Henry_River_(Western_Australia)).[2]

## History of contact

The remnants of the Buruna moved to and settled around Towera Station.[2]

## Alternative names

- *Budoona*

- *Peedona*

- *Poordoona*

- *Puduna*

- *Wati Puruna*

Source: [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 240

## Notes

### Citations

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:5_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:5_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:5_1-2) McConvell, Patrick; Kelly, Piers; Lacrampe, Sébastien, eds. (5 April 2018). [*Skin, Kin and Clan: The dynamics of social categories in Indigenous Australia*](https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/skin-kin-and-clan) (1st ed.). ANU Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.22459/skc.04.2018](https://doi.org/10.22459%2Fskc.04.2018). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-76046-163-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-76046-163-8).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974240_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974240_2-1) [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 240.

## Sources

- ["AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia"](https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia). [AIATSIS](/source/Australian_Institute_of_Aboriginal_and_Torres_Strait_Islander_Studies). 14 May 2024.

- [Austin, Peter](/source/Peter_Austin_(linguist)) (2015). [*A Grammar of the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia*](https://www.academia.edu/15938656). [School of Oriental and African Studies](/source/School_of_Oriental_and_African_Studies).

- ["Tindale Tribal Boundaries"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf) (PDF). [Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia](/source/Department_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_(Western_Australia)). September 2016. Archived from [the original](https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf) (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2017.

- [Tindale, Norman Barnett](/source/Norman_Tindale) (1974). ["Buruna (WA)"](http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/buruna.htm). *Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names*. [Australian National University Press](/source/ANU_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-708-10741-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-708-10741-6).

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