Places
This is a small collection of place names around Kuyani country. Have you been to any of the places listed below?
You may find it interesting that some of these places have names of plants or animals in them.
Kuyani
English
Arkapa-purrunha
name of a minor ochre mine in the Bopeechee area
Kadnunha
name of a place called Sliding Rock
Kadnya
name of the Frome Creek
Kakalpunha
name of the ancestor who became Mt Termination
Mangu-katanha
'forehead feeling cool', the Mungutena plain around the Watiwarrigana creek where the Mungutena dam is now situated, about 70 Km southwest of William Ck. In the Turkey myth the thirsty young initiates cooled down their forehead while spreading out over this plain.
Mara-madlhuru
name of place , Muloorina waterhole
Papardla
name of a small waterhole and important soakage just down from old Stuart Ck Homestead. This is where the Ancestor Thunpili cut off his child’s head and left it by the soakage.
Pinpa
placename: site of Pimba dam, where the Snake Ancestors Kurkari and Yurkunangku got resin for their spears
Piya-piyanha
Cane-grass Swamp near Pea-Pea Ridge, so named because the Two Snakes travelled through there sucking the nectar from eremophila flowers
Pupityi
name of a place, Bopeechee siding on the old railway line, west of Alberrie Creek. It is close to Wibma-malkara, the 'Dreamtime Initiation Ground'
Thidna-pirri-nha
name of a site close to the old Stuart Creek Homestead,
Wangkiya-nha
name of place: Wangiana
Wilka-pina
name of place: Old Myrtle Springs: 'Big Dog' because in the myth a big dog jumped in there
Yabmalka-nha
name of Leigh Creek Waterhole