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Australian Aboriginal tribe

Albany Island Native name: Pabaju Admiralty Plan No. 1937. Plan drawn in 1862 showing site on Albany Island advised for the proposed Cape York Station, and the best position for the township on the mainland opposite.

Djagaraga-Gudang territory in Cape York, Queensland, Australia

The **Djagaraga** or **Gudang** (**Pantyinamu**/**Yatay**/**Gudang**/**Kartalaiga** and other clans) are an [Australian Aboriginal](/source/Indigenous_Australians) [tribe](/source/Tribe), who traditionally lived in the coastal area from Cape York to Fly point, including also [Pabaju (Albany Island)](/source/Albany_Island),[1] in the [Cape York Peninsula](/source/Cape_York_Peninsula), Queensland. In the early period of white settlement as the Somerset tribe, after the settlement of [Somerset](/source/Somerset%2C_Queensland) established on their lands in 1863.

The names **Yatay**, **Gudang** and **Kartalaiga** appear to be exonyms from [Kalau Lagau Ya](/source/Kalau_Lagau_Ya) (the Western and Central Torres Strait Islanders), respectively **yadai** "words", **gudalnga** ("mouthy") and **katalaiga** "green frog person"; the totem of the Kartalaiga was the green frog.

## Language

They spoke [Gudang language](/source/Gudang_language), alt. Djagaraga, which according to [Kenneth L. Hale](/source/Kenneth_L._Hale)'s classification, was one of 10 languages of a northern Paman subgroup.[2]

## Social organization

The Djagaraga were divided up into [hordes](/source/Band_society), of which four, according to Tindale, are thought to be registered, though some of these are now counted as distinct tribes.

- *[Gudang/Alauian](/source/Gudang)* (Cape York)

- *Unduamo*

- *Kekosino* (Escape River)

- *Kokiliga* (?)[3]

## Social culture

Nonie Smith states that their 'relations with the [Western Torres Strait Island people](/source/Torres_Strait_Islanders) the [Kaurareg](/source/Kaurareg) were 'so close that despite their distinct identity they could be regarded almost as an outpost of the latter.'[4] They also shared trade, kin and ritual links with their eastern coastal tribal neighbour, the [Unduyamo](/source/Unduyamo) Some recent scholarship, basing its inferences on the density of ceremonial rock structures throughout the territory of the Gudang and Unduyamo, speculates that they may have functioned as ceremonial masters for rites of initiation and the magical increase of natural species also for the Torres Strait peoples with whom they had close relations of trade, marriage and religion.

## History

According to Dr. Creed, large numbers of the Djagaraga were killed off by the [Yadhaykenu](/source/Yadhaykenu) within living memory.[a]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** 'The natives at Cape York call themselves Gudaŋ. Westward of that tribe are the Kokiliga; south-west of the Gudaŋ are the [Ondaima](/source/Ankamuti); and due south, are the Yaldaigan, who have almost exterminated the Gudaŋ.'[5]

### Citations

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoore1979299_1-0)** [Moore 1979](#CITEREFMoore1979), p. 299.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDixon2002xxx–xxxi,_660_2-0)** [Dixon 2002](#CITEREFDixon2002), pp. xxx–xxxi, 660.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974167_3-0)** [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 167.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharp199214_4-0)** [Sharp 1992](#CITEREFSharp1992), p. 14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECreed1878266_5-0)** [Creed 1878](#CITEREFCreed1878), p. 266.

## Sources

- Creed (1878). Ridley, William (ed.). ["Australian Languages and Traditions"](https://zenodo.org/record/1574076). *[The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/The_Journal_of_the_Anthropological_Institute_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)*. **7**: 266–268. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/2841001](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2841001). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2841001](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2841001).

- [Dixon, Robert M. W.](/source/Robert_M._W._Dixon) (2002). [*Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development*](https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR31). Vol. 1. [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-47378-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-47378-1).

- Greer, Shelley; McIntyre-Tamwoy, Susan; Henry, Rosita (2011). [*Sentinel Sites in a cosmo-political seascape*](https://web.archive.org/web/20161031025841/http://sicri-network.org/ISIC7/d.%20ISIC7P%20Greer%20et%20al.pdf) (PDF). 7th International Small Islands Conference, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays. pp. 2–10. Archived from [the original](http://sicri-network.org/ISIC7/d.%20ISIC7P%20Greer%20et%20al.pdf) (PDF) on 31 October 2016.

- [Jardine, Francis Lascelles](/source/Francis_Lascelles_Jardine); [Jardin, Alexander William](/source/Alexander_William_Jardine) (1867). Byerley, Frederick J. (ed.). [*Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine, from Rockhamptom to Cape York, Northern Queensland*](http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00026.html). Brisbane: J. W. Buxton.

- McGillivray, John (1852). [*Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-50, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc: to which is added Mr. E.B. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula*](https://archive.org/download/narrativeofvoyag522macg/narrativeofvoyag522macg.pdf) (PDF). London: T. & W. Boone.

- Moore, David R. (1979). *Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York*. [Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies](/source/Australian_Institute_of_Aboriginal_Studies). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-855-75082-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-855-75082-4).

- Sharp, Nonie (1992). [*Footprints Along the Cape York Sandbeaches*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qqdhSYPN9gQC&pg=PA71). [Aboriginal Studies Press](/source/Aboriginal_Studies_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-855-75230-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-855-75230-9).

- [Tindale, Norman Barnett](/source/Norman_Tindale) (1974). ["Ankamuti (QLD)"](http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/ankamuti.htm). *Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names*. Australian National University 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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