# Mbewum

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Aboriginal Australian people

The **Mbewum** were an [indigenous Australian](/source/Indigenous_Australian) people of the [Cape York Peninsula](/source/Cape_York_Peninsula) of northern [Queensland](/source/Queensland). They were dispossessed and became extinct soon after colonization.

## Language

The Mbewum spoke *[Mbiywom](/source/Mbiywom_language)*, a [northern Paman language](/source/Paman_languages).[1]

## Country

The Mbewum had an estimated 600 square miles (1,600 km2) of tribal domain territory on the [Upper Watson River](/source/Watson_River_(Queensland)), which included Merluna[2] in the area 120 miles south-east of [Weipa](/source/Weipa). Their land, together with that of the [Totj](/source/Totj) was incorporated into a state-run enterprise, the Queensland State Pastoral Station of that name, which by 1916 was running over 12,000 head of cattle.[3][4]

## Social organization

They had four kinship divisions like other tribes in the area, according to [R. H. Mathews](/source/Robert_Hamilton_Mathews).[5]

## Alternative names

- *KokMbewan*

- *Mbe:wum, Mbeiwum, M-Berwum*

- *Bywoom*

- *Kokinno*[6]

- *Kokimoh*[2]

## Notes

### Citations

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDixon2002xxxi_1-0)** [Dixon 2002](#CITEREFDixon2002), p. xxxi.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974181_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974181_2-1) [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 181.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECohen1988233_3-0)** [Cohen 1988](#CITEREFCohen1988), p. 233.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMay1994212,_n6_4-0)** [May 1994](#CITEREFMay1994), p. 212, n6.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMathews1900131–135_5-0)** [Mathews 1900](#CITEREFMathews1900), pp. 131–135.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMathews1900131_6-0)** [Mathews 1900](#CITEREFMathews1900), p. 131.

## 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.

- Cohen, Kay (August 1988). ["State Pastoral Stations in Queensland: 1916-30"](https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_205754/s00855804_1988_13_7_229.pdf) (PDF). *[Journal of the Royal Society of Queensland](/source/Royal_Society_of_Queensland)*. **X111** (7): 229–248.

- [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).

- [Mathews, R. H.](/source/Robert_Hamilton_Mathews) (1900). ["Some tribes of Cape York Peninsula"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130743). *[Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales](/source/Journal_and_Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_of_New_South_Wales)*. **34**: 131–135.

- May, Dawn (1994). [*Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present*](https://archive.org/details/aboriginallabour0000mayd). [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). p. [212](https://archive.org/details/aboriginallabour0000mayd/page/212). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-46915-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-46915-9).

- [McConnel, Ursula H.](/source/Ursula_McConnel) (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". *[Oceania](/source/Oceania_(journal))*. **10** (1): 54–72. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x](https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fj.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [40327744](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40327744).

- [McConnel, Ursula H.](/source/Ursula_McConnel) (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". *[Oceania](/source/Oceania_(journal))*. **10** (4): 434–455. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x](https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fj.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [40327867](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40327867).

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