Tatungalung people
The Tatungalung are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Victoria. They are often, together with the Bratauolung, Braiakaulung, Brabiralung and Krauatungalung classified as belonging to one nation, the Gunai/Kurnai, though this typology has been thought, by Norman Tindale, to be an artificial construct. Name. The word "tatung" means 'south', referring to the fact that they are the southernmost of the Gunai peoples. Language. The Tatungalung traditionally spoke a dialect that was likely mutually intelligible with the Brataualung and the Braiakaulung, and collectively called "Nulit." Robert M. W. Dixon considers Nulit itself to be a dialect  of "Muk-thang". Country. Their traditional lands covered an estimated , running along the coast of Ninety Mile Beach and about Lakes Victoria and Wellington, including a group established on Raymond Island, at King Lake. Their frontiers were at Lakes Entrance to the mouth of Merriman Creek in the west. Social organization. According to Friedrich Hagenauer the Tatungalung were divided into 4 hordes, though Alfred William Howitt adds a fifth. Tindale suspected that one of the names associated with the tribe, "Boul-boul", might refer to one of these hordes. The clan or horde that lived on Raymond Island, which Howitt  says was an enclave - the mainland around the shores of King Lake being Brabiralung ground - was known as the "Biinjil-baur", and they asserted a right to exclusive ownership of all of the swans' eggs laid on the site. This notice has drawn the attention of scholars because the concept of property, widely thought absent, aappears here to have been asserted as an exclusive title. History. A tradition relates that, in revenge for killing one of their men, the Brabiralung set up an ambush, using a hill overlooking the island to secretly make preparations. Alternative names. Source: Tatungalung people The