Kokowarra
The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places the Kokowarra (a.k.a. the Kukuwarra, Kuku Warra, Gugu-Warra or Laura-Deighton tribe) inland from Cooktown, with the Lamalama to their north, the Mutumui to their northeast, the Guugu Yimithirr to the east, the Kuku-Yalanji to their south, and the Kokominni and Kunjen to the west.
Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia assigns them around 4700 square kilometres of territory around the Normanby River, extending as far south as Lakeland and the Laura River. Their central camping area was at Daidan on the Deighton River. Other tribes applied the ethnonym Kokowara ('rough speech') to them. Their autonym (word for themselves) remains unclear.
Walter Roth used 'Koko Warra' to describe 'various mutually-friendly groups in the hinterland south and east of Princess Charlotte Bay, speaking similar dialects and practising similar usages and customs'. On the other hand, Bruce Rigsby concluded that 'Koko Warra' referred to a number of distinct clans and languages in a cultural network, around the North Kennedy, Normanby and Laura Rivers, as well as clans that spoke dialects of Guugu Yimithirr, Lamalama, Olkola and Kuku Yalanji.
