Site Name | Nappamanna Station, near Pandie Pandie station |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
Language Group, Nation or People | Wanganuru |
Present State/Territory | SA |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
Police District | |
Latitude | -26.139 |
Longitude | 139.313 |
Date | Between 1 Jan 1890 and 31 Dec 1899 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 40 |
Victims Killed Notes | More than 40. |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Repeating Rifle(s) |
Narrative | The massacre was in reprisal for the Wanganuru murder of a white man who had raped a Wanganuru woman (Hercus, 1977, p 56). The incident was the third massacre in the region told to linguist Luise Hercus in the 1960s by Wardumba man Ben Murray, a nephew of Rib Bone Billy who was alive at the time of the massacre (Hercus, 1977, p 56). Journalist George Farwell was also told of the massacre on his journey through the region in the 1940s (Farwell, 1950, pp 38-40). |
Sources | Hercus, 1977, p 56; Farwell, 1950, pp 38-40. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | ** |