The Tjuroro, also known as the Jurruru, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Name
The Tjuroro ethnonym appears to have meant 'lowlanders', in opposition to the Kurama (uplanders).[1]
Language
The Tjuroro spoke Jurruru.
Country
2,200 square miles (5,700 km2) along and southeast of the Ashburton River from Kooline to Ashburton Downs and Turee Creek junction. Their northern extension went as far as the slopes overlooking the Pilbara's Hardey River. They also hunted as far north and south as the headwaters of the creeks in the Kenneth and Capricorn Ranges.[1]
Alternative names
- Churoro, Choororo, Chooraroo
- Djururo
- Tjororo, Tjururu, Tjururo
Source: Tindale 1974, p. 257
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 257.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Austin, Peter (1988). Aboriginal languages of the Gascoyne-Ashburton region. Vol. 1. La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics. pp. 43–63.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Tjuroro (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.