Jetimarala (QLD)

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Location: On Boomer and Broad Sound Ranges from Fitzroy River north to about Killarney; west to the Mackenzie and Isaac rivers. In my 1940 work this was listed only as a supposed part of either the Barada or Kabalbara tribes. Davidson (1938) correctly recognized it on his map as a separate tribe. Further comment under Kabalbara.

Co-ordinates: 149°35'E x 23°0'S

Area: 1,500 sq. m. (3,900 sq. km.)

References: Fox, 1900; Howitt, 1904; Davidson, 1938; Tindale, 1938 MS, 1940.

Alternative Names: Ja:mba (means camp), Yaamba, Yetti maralla (mari = man), Taruin-bura ('big river people,' a horde name).

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/18/22 - Clermont (3234)