A Bogaia house at Kuba/ Guba near the Nali (Upper Burnett) River
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Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949-
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Photographer's note: A Bogaia house at Kuba/ Guba (Kubwa/ Gosugubi?) near the Nali (Upper Burnett) River. This photograph was taken a short distance south from the Nali River vine bridge crossing (universal grid reference 54M XU45713). Photographer's note: The Bogaia house is about seven metres long and open at each end with a wall of bark across the centre separating the men's and women's sections. In the past, some houses were built on stilts. Inside, raised sleeping platforms extend along the side walls and cooking fires are located between them. Small fires are also made beneath the sleeping platforms at night for warmth and to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Southern Bogaias, often referred to as Muwna people, live in small extended-family groups scattered through the tropical rainforest on the floodplain east of the Strickland below Devil’s Race, and between the north (Nali) and south (Dio/ Djalo) branches of the Burnett River. This appears to be a cultural transition area where there is considerable interaction with Febi people. They maintain links with the larger Bogaia population that occupies the Bulago Valley to the north-west. Intermarriage with Febi people also appears to be common. Sweet potato is the main food of the Bogaia but it is supplemented by cooking bananas, sago, taro and other foods hunted and collected in the forest.
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Dec 1979
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