Badjiri
The Badjiri, also written Badyuri, are an Australian Aboriginal people group of Queensland. They are not to be confused with the Pitjara.
Country
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Map of the traditional lands of the Badjari peoples of Western Queensland.
According to Norman Tindale, the Badjiri lands spanned some 4,100 square miles (11,000 km2), reaching from around Hungerford to Eulo on the Paroo River. Their eastern limits were around Barringun, Tinnenburra, Tuen, and Cunnamulla. They were also present at Caiwarro and about the eastern side of Currawinya.[1]
Alternative names
- Badjidi
- Badjeri, Baddyeri
- Byjerri
- Baderi
- Poidgerry
- Badjedi
- Bädjäri[1]
Notes
Citations
- 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 164.
Sources
- Looker, W. H. (1887). "Mungalella Creek" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 276–278.
- Mathews, R. H. (1905). "Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of Queensland" (PDF). Queensland Geographical Journal. 29: 49–75.
- Myles, F. W. (1886). "Thargominda, Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Badjiri (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.
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