| Site Name | Warlupany - East Kimberley |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Worla, Kitja |
| Present State/Territory | WA |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | WA |
| Police District | East Kimberley |
| Latitude | -17.332 |
| Longitude | 127.883 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1890 and 31 Dec 1899 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 10 |
| Victims Killed Notes | 10-20 |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Rifle(s) |
| Narrative | Jack Britten – Warlupany
Jack Britten told Helen Ross: 'And Warlupany, I never tell you this for Warlupany, just the other side of Violet Valley. That's the other place they bin catch em again, big mob of people.
They reckon 'oh lightning knocking em now, they shooting them everywhere.' Some fella come up cry with that dead body, he lay top of that dead bodies again, all that. Just other side of Violet Valley. Bamboo we call it, Bamboo Creek. Just off Koondooloo River, well Spring Creek now, right up at head of it, by the hills. That hill come around right round close up la Violet Valley. End of the river. Some people bin getting shot there, everywhere. They don't know whats coming. They didn't know what to get away or just…[end]' (Jack Britten cited in Ross and Bray, 1989, p 16). |
| Sources | Ross and Bray, 1989, p 16; Ryan, 2001, pp 71-75. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
