# Wanamara

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Aboriginal Australian people

See also: [Wanamara language](/source/Wanamara_language)

The **Wanamara** (**Wunumara**) were an [Aboriginal Australian](/source/Aboriginal_Australian) people of the state of [Queensland](/source/Queensland).

## Country

The Wanamara's tribal lands extended over, in [Norman Tindale](/source/Norman_Tindale)'s calculations, some 13,000 square miles (34,000 km2) from the headwaters of the [Flinders River](/source/Flinders_River), eastwards as far as [Richmond](/source/Richmond%2C_Queensland). Their western frontier was at the Williams River near [Cloncurry](/source/Cloncurry%2C_Queensland). Their southern limits were at the [Great Dividing Range](/source/Great_Dividing_Range) and to [Kynuna](/source/Kynuna). They ranged north as far as Cambridge Downs and Dalgonally.[1]

## Alternative names

- *Wunamara*

- *Woonamurra, Woonomurra*

- *Unamara*

- *Oonoomurra*

- ? *Quippen-bura* (possibly a northern horde near Richmond)[1]

## Notes

### Citations

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974188_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974188_1-1) [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 188.

## Sources

- MacGillibray (1887). [Curr, Edward Micklethwaite](/source/Edward_Micklethwaite_Curr) (ed.). [*The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent*](https://archive.org/download/australianracei02currgoog/australianracei02currgoog.pdf) (PDF). Vol. 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres.

- [Roth, W. E.](/source/Walter_Roth) (1897). [*Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines*](https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890328) (PDF). Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.

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