Australian Museum Journal North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 18. Social and individual nomenclature
- Shortform:
- Roth, 1910, Rec. Aust. Mus. 8(1): 79–106
- Author(s):
- Roth, Walter E.
- Year published:
- 1910
- Title:
- North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 18. Social and individual nomenclature
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 79
- End page:
- 106
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.8.1910.936
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xxv–xxxi
- Date published:
- 15 November 1910
- Cover date:
- 15 November 1910
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 20 April 2009
- Reference number:
- 936
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (99kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (4393kb PDF)
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Abstract
[Excerpt from p. 82]. 3. As a general rule, however, within certain limits, each group has more or less friendly, commercial, or other interests with some one or other of its neighbours; its members, though speaking· different dialects may render themselves pretty mutually intelligible and possess in common various trade-routes, markets, hunting-grounds, customs, manners and beliefs with the result that they might as a whole be well described as messmates, the one group sometimes speaking of another by a term corresponding with that of friend. There may, or may not (e.g., Boulia District) be one single term applied to such a collection of friendly groups, i.e., a tribe occupying a district, the meaning of the collective name being either unknown (e.g., Kalkadun, Workai-a), or bearing reference to the physical conformation of the country, or else depending apparently upon the nature of the language spoken.