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[[Image:Native Encampment by Skinner Prout, from Australia (1876, vol II).jpg|thumb|250px|A 19th-century engraving showing Aboriginal people and humpy]]
[[Image:Native Encampment by Skinner Prout, from Australia (1876, vol II).jpg|thumb|250px|A 19th-century engraving showing Aboriginal people and a humpy.]]


A '''humpy''', also known as a '''gunyah''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allwords.com/word-gunyah.html|title=Definition of gunyah|website=www.allwords.com}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Memmott, Paul | title=Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley : the Aboriginal architecture of Australia | year=2007 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-7022-3245-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oneplanet.com.au/tents.html |title=Tents |publisher=One Planet |access-date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Cannot, Jack | author2=Prince, Victor | title=I'll build a gunyah for you : song | publication-date=1912 | publisher=Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34768258 | access-date=7 January 2019 }}</ref> '''wurley''', '''wurly''' or '''wurlie''', is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by [[Aboriginal Australians|Australian Aboriginal people]]. These impermanent dwellings, made of branches and bark, are sometimes called a [[lean-to]], since they often rely on a standing tree for support.
A '''humpy''', also known as a '''gunyah''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allwords.com/word-gunyah.html|title=Definition of gunyah|website=www.allwords.com}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Memmott, Paul | title=Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley : the Aboriginal architecture of Australia | year=2007 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-7022-3245-9 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oneplanet.com.au/tents.html |title=Tents |publisher=One Planet |access-date=2012-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Cannot, Jack | author2=Prince, Victor | title=I'll build a gunyah for you : song | publication-date=1912 | publisher=Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34768258 | access-date=7 January 2019 }}</ref> '''wurley''', '''wurly''' or '''wurlie''', is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by [[Aboriginal Australians|Australian Aboriginal people]]. These impermanent dwellings, made of branches and bark, are sometimes called a [[lean-to]], since they often rely on a standing tree for support.

Revision as of 02:59, 7 February 2024

For the John Williamson album, see Gunyah (album). For the chess player, see Koneru Humpy.

A 19th-century engraving showing Aboriginal people and a humpy.

A humpy, also known as a gunyah,[1][2][3][4] wurley, wurly or wurlie, is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by Australian Aboriginal people. These impermanent dwellings, made of branches and bark, are sometimes called a lean-to, since they often rely on a standing tree for support.

Etymology

The word humpy comes from the Jagera language (a Murri people from Coorparoo in Brisbane); other language groups would have different names for the structure. In South Australia, such a shelter is known as a "wurley" (also spelled "wurlie"), possibly from the Kaurna language.[5][6][7]


Usage

Both names were adopted by early white settlers, and now form part of the Australian lexicon. The use of the term appears to have broadened in later usage to include any temporary building made from any available materials, including canvas, flattened metal drums, and sheets of corrugated iron.

Gallery

  • Bark humpy, Brisbane, 1874
    Bark humpy, Brisbane, 1874
  • Bushman humpy, 1910s
    Bushman humpy, 1910s
  • Humpy in far western Queensland, 1937
    Humpy in far western Queensland, 1937
  • Native Wurley, 1886
    Native Wurley, 1886

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Definition of gunyah". www.allwords.com.
  2. ^ Memmott, Paul (2007), Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley : the Aboriginal architecture of Australia (1st ed.), University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3245-9
  3. ^ "Tents". One Planet. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  4. ^ Cannot, Jack; Prince, Victor (1912), I'll build a gunyah for you : song, Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd, retrieved 7 January 2019
  5. ^ Peters, Pam, The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p818
  6. ^ "A Bark Humpy. How to Build it?". The Queenslander. Queensland, Australia. 30 October 1930. p. 57. Retrieved 7 January 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Humpies and Gunyahs : Coloured Families on the Tweed". Sunday Mail. No. 550. Queensland, Australia. 10 December 1933. p. 7. Retrieved 7 January 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

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