Kalibamu (QLD)

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Location: On the coast between Leichhardt River and Morning Inlet; inland to Wernadinga, Floraville, and Punchbowl. They did not practice either circumcision or subincision as initiatory rites. By 1963 the tribe was extinct.

Co-ordinates: 140°5'E x 17°55'S

Area: 1,100 sq. m. (2,900 sq. km.)

References: Armit in Curr, 1886; Tindale, 1940, 1963 MS.

Alternative Names: Kotanda (valid alternative, this name is now sometimes applied to the Kareldi).

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/25 - 'Journal of Visit to the Gulf of Carpentaria by Norman B Tindale. 1963.'

Item AA 338/15/41 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'

Item AA 338/18/12 - Normanton (3220)