Wandjira (NT)

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Location: On Inverway Station north to the edge of the plateau near Mount Rose; west to Kulungulan on Western Australia border; south to the rough sandstone country at about lat. 18°40'; east to near Mount Farquharson. At Munbu on upper Negri River. Survivors today live principally at Inverway and Birrindudu Stations.

Co-ordinates: 129°30'E x 18°0'S

Area: 5,300 sq. m. (13,800 sq. km.)

References: Terry, 1926; Tindale, 1940, 1953 MS; Berndt and Berndt, 1946,1964.

Alternative Names: 'Wadshara, Manu, Manoo (of Terry).

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 338/15/102 - '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 338/26/24/1-3 - Ian Mackay map depicting part of the Northern Territory 'tribal distributions' with NB Tindale amendments

Item AA 338/46/104 - 'POINTS'

Item AA 338/46/107 - 'POINTS'

Item AA 338/52/57 - 'STONE POINTS'

Item AA 338/71/31 - 'STONE POINTS'

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

Item AA 689/1/7/1 - 'Serology 1'

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