Wadjalang (QLD)

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Location: Headwaters of Bulloo and Langlo rivers from Quilpie north to Northampton Downs, near and east of Blackall, and to Tambo; east to Cheepie, Burrandilla, and Nive Downs; at Ambathalla and Minnie Downs. The vocabularies of Dalhunty and Crombie seem to belong to this tribe. The Wadjalang did not have the male rite of circumcision.

Co-ordinates: 145°20'E x 25°50'S

Area: 15,000 sq. m. (39,000 sq. km.)

References: Dalhunty and Crombie in Curr, 1887; Tindale, 1940.

Alternative Names: ['mari] = man, ['al:a] = no.

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 338/7/2/58 - 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 338/8/20 - Parallel Vocabularies

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

Item AA 338/18/25 - Charleville (3341)

Item AA 338/18/26 - Cooper Creek (3342)