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Punaba (WA)
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| | Location | North boundary along Lady Forrest Range; west to Mount Broome; along divide of Richenda River to Granite Range and Mount Percy; southeast along Oscar Range to Brooking Springs; along Geikie Gorge and scarp of Geikie Range northeast to the headwaters of Stony Creek. Includes the whole of the eastern half of the King Leopold Ranges, particularly on the limestone areas. Ilimbiri, a spring near Mount Percy was a common refuge water shared with the Ongkomi and Njikena but in precontact times the Njikena had been hostile. Tradition in the tribe says they were driven south out of the Leopold Ranges by the Ngarinjin before the coming of white men. |
| Co-ordinates | 125°40'E x 17°45'S |
| Area | 2,500 sq. m. (6,500 sq. km.) |
| References | Mathews, 1900 (Gr. 6447); Kaberry, 1932, 1939; Elkin, 1933; Capell, 1939, 1940, 1952, 1965; Tindale, 1940, 1953 MS; Worms, 1950, 1952 MS; Australian Encyclopedia, 1958; Playford, 1960. |
| Alternative Names | Bunaba, Punamba (of Ngarinjin), Kunamba (derogatory version by other tribespeople, 'kuna = dung), Bunapa, Booneba. |
This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact. |
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Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations
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Identifier AA 338/1/19/2
Date 15 July 1953 - 30 October 1953, 1953-55, 1 Oct 1958, 1961, 1964-65, 1979, 1981-82
Quantity 5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22.1x26.8 cm,
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Identifier AA 338/1/19/3
Date 1952 - 1954, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982
Quantity 4.7 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 23.0x26.4cm, 538 pages, 4 inserts and 2 loose items
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/102
Date 1954 - 1959, dates in annotations; map printed 1949
Quantity 1 map, 55.0x78.5 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/120
Date 1953, date in annotation; map printed 1945
Quantity 1 map, 76.0x97.5 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/14
Date 1958 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
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Identifier AA 338/18/15
Date 1965 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
Series AA338/42 - Australian Anthropology - Slides Volume 15
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Identifier AA 338/42/141
Date 15 August 1953
Quantity 1 35mm colour slide
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Series AA346/04 - Sociological, Anthropological, Vital Statistics and ACER data recorded onto cards by Board for Anthropological Research expedition members, 1923-1963.
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Identifier AA 346/4/22
Date 2 December 1952 - 7 August 1954
Quantity 176 cm, 4 card series; cards 20.5 x 12.7 cm
Series AA346/22 - Crayon drawings of 'native maps' relating to the University of California Los Angeles expedition to Western Australia, 1953-1954.
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Identifier AA 346/22/95
Date 24 July 1953 - 24 July 1953
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 crayon drawing, 36x53.5 cm
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Identifier AA 346/22/100
Date 1953
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 crayon drawing, 36x53.5 cm
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Identifier AA 346/22/104
Date 28 August 1953
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 crayon drawing, 36x53.5 cm
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Series AA689/01 - Bound volumes of expedition journals, notes, anthropometric and morphometric data on Australian and foreign collections and blood grouping data.
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Identifier AA 689/1/6
Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with gray binding, 46pp., 31x20 cm
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Identifier AA 689/1/7/2
Date c. 1952 - c. 1954, Date of related expedition, dates of annotation unknown
Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 Faded blue hard-bound notebook with red binding, 44pp., 31.8x20.2 cm
Series AA689/09 - Anthropometric data cards from Board for Anthropological Research expeditions and cranial data cards recorded at numerous institutions
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Identifier AA 689/9/17
Date 1952 - 1954, dates in annotations
Quantity 64 cm, 3 Albox boxes and one black folder with index
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