Kawadji (QLD)

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Location: Night Island and on the coast opposite; they visit outlying reefs in double-outriggered wooden canoes called tango ['tango]; they are intimately associated with the Ombila and also with the Pontunj whose language (Jangkonju) they speak.

Co-ordinates: 143°25'E x 13°10'S

Area: 100 sq. m. including reefs (250 sq. km.)

References: Hale and Tindale, 1933; Thomson, 1934, 1952; Tindale, 1940 and MS.

Alternative Names: Kawadji (term also used by Kandju and other interior tribes where ['kawai] = east), Mälnkänidji (['malngkan] = beach and ['idja] = belonging to), Jangkonju (language term shared with Pontunj), Yankonyu, 'Night Island people.'

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

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

Item AA 338/18/09 - Mitchell River (3111)