Thaua people
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Thaua people, or Thauaira or Thawa or Tharawal
people of the Yuin (Murring) nation of the South Coast of New South Wales.
The associated language name is Thurga /Thoorga / Durga/ Dhurga.
in his 1974 catalogue of Australian Aboriginal boundaries describes the Thua country and associated estates as follows:
Tharawal language
Tharawal is an Australian Aboriginal language.-Classification:Southern New South Wales groupClans and Families of The Northern Dharawal*Noron-Geragal*Targarigal*Goonamattagal*Wodi Wodi...
people of the Yuin (Murring) nation of the South Coast of New South Wales.
The associated language name is Thurga /Thoorga / Durga/ Dhurga.
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in his 1974 catalogue of Australian Aboriginal boundaries describes the Thua country and associated estates as follows:
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; west to the scarp of the Dividing Range. Their hordes were divided into two groups, the ['Katungal] 'sea coast people,' and the ['Baianbal] or ['PaienbaraPambula, New South WalesPambula is a town in Bega Valley Shire on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia south of Sydney via the Princes Highway. At the 2006 census, Pambula had a population of 1,146 people.-History:...
], the 'tomahawk people,' those who lived in the forests; a third group, the Bemerigal or mountain people at Cooma belonged to the Ngarigo with whom the inland Thaua had some associations.