Agwamin/Ewamin
The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places the Agwamin at the base of Cape York Peninsula in an area that includes Cobbold Gorge, Einasleigh, Forsayth, Georgetown, Mount Surprise, Talaroo Hot Springs and Undara Volcanic National Park, with the Kokomini and Kunjen to their north, the Kuku-Yalanji, Mbarbaram and Gugu Badhun to their east, and the Yanga, Takalak and Kurtjar to their west.
Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia places the Ewamin in the same area and lists Agwamin as a synonym. On the About The North website and associated texts, I have chosen to bracket the two as Agwamin/Ewamin. Where the alternatives are well separated in the alphabetically listed text, I have chosen to bracket the options with similar text under each heading. For entries like the next one (Ajabatha/Ajabathan), where the different spellings are nearly identical, a single entry will suffice.
Tindale described their 15,000-square-kilometre territory as lying around the headwaters of the Gilbert, Einasleigh and Copperfield Rivers, extending as far north as Georgetown and Mount Surprise. Their eastern boundaries were roughly aligned with the Great Dividing Range. Their territory extended as far west as the headwaters of the Percy River.
Their language comprised two mutually intelligible dialects (Agwamin or Wamin). It is undergoing a modest revival after Peter Sutton documented it in the early 1970s with the assistance of Elder Fred Fulford. There was reputedly one surviving speaker of the language in 1981.
