Korindji (NT)

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Location: On headwaters of Victoria River south from Munjan (Mount Sanford Station) and Tjalwa or Longreach Waterhole, extending westward to G.B. Rockhole (n.n. ['Loma]) and east to Bullock Creek and Camfield River; at Wave Hill. On Cattle Creek in the southeast they meet the Mutpura. They do not go east into the parallel sandhill country. Their southern boundary lies near Hooker Creek (n.n. ['O:lajai]). Mackay (1959 MS) maps the name Manu, otherwise identified with the Wandjira, as in Korindji tribal area. In the Karaman language ['kori] = west-the present tribal name may therefore once have meant 'westerners'; no other has been suggested.

Co-ordinates: 130°40'E x 17°40'S

Area: 8,400 sq. m. (21,800 sq. km.)

References: Mathews, 1900 (Gr. 6575); Berndt, 1944 MS, 1965; Tindale, 1953 MS; Meggitt, 1955.

Alternative Names: Guirindji, Gurindji, Garundji, Koorangie.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/19/2 - 'Anthropological Field Notes on the University of California at Los Angeles - University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition, North West Australia. Volume II. Pp.692a-1250'

Item AA 338/7/2/58 - Parallel Vocabulary 1, Harvard Expedition, A-K

Item AA 338/7/2/59 - Parallel Vocabulary 2, Harvard Expedition, L-S

Item AA 338/7/2/60 - Parallel Vocabulary 3, Harvard Expedition, T-Z

Item AA 338/15/96 - 'Northern Territory of Australia Pastoral Map'

Item AA 338/15/102 - 'E.5 - Hall's Creek' (Western Australia)

Item AA 338/15/230 - 'E.6 - Newcastle Waters' (Northern Territory)

Item AA 338/18/14 - Halls Creek (3222)

Item AA 346/4/22 - University of California at Los Angeles and University of Adelaide Anthropological Expedition sociological and anthropological data cards

Item AA 689/9/17 - The University of California at Los Angeles and University of Adelaide Anthropological Data Cards, 1952-54.