Bakanambia
Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia places this group on 2,900 square kilometres on Princess Charlotte Bay's southern and eastern shores, extending inland to the Normanby and North Kennedy Rivers' tidal limits and Lakefield. That places them on the country that the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia assigns to the Lama Lama — the name that is now applied to an aggregation of remnants of some forty clans, five distinct language groups and over a dozen descent groups to form a group in their own right.
Tindale offers Wanbara (valid alternative term), Wambara (incorrect), Kokolamalama (of southern tribes), Lamalama, Lamul-lamul, Kokaoalamalma (corrupt or typographical error), Mukinna, Banambia and Banambila as alternatives. He suggests that a relatively high incidence of cleft palate among members of this group may have influenced their speech patterns, but notes that the possibility has not registered with linguists.
Along with the Kokowara and Mutumui, the Bakanambia attacked Edmund Kennedy's party as it passed through their territory in 1848, and were subsequently decimated in the wake of the Palmer River gold rush.
