Wadjabangai

See also: Wadjabangai language

The Wadjabangai, otherwise known as Wadjabangayi, were an Aboriginal Australian people of Queensland.

Language

Wadjabangai was closely related to Bidjara.^[1]

Country

Norman Tindale estimated Wadjabangai lands at 3,200 square miles (8,300 km²) of sandy plains with ample tree stands. He arrived at this figure by exclusion from the known range of contiguous tribal territories whose domain borders are better known. The Wadjabangai lived in the area south of Lancevale, including Maryvale and as far as Blackall.^[2][3]

Alternative names

• Karimari (from ka:ri, salt and mari, men)^[2]

Notes

Citations

1. Breen 1990, p. 69.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 186.
3. Breen 1990, p. 22.

Sources

• Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage Studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal Languages. Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU. ISBN 978-0-858-83401-9.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wadjabangai (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.