Djerait
The Djerait were an
indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory
Language
The
Djerait language was said to have been mutually intelligible with that of the Mulluk-Mulluk who spoke a Daly river language, being as distant as ancient Greek dialects were to each other. And it was also said to be interchangeable with that spoken by the Pongaponga.[1]
Country
According to
Wogait.[1]
People
The
Jesuit missionary Donald Mackillop stated that the Djerait were a "small but intelligent tribe".[1]
Some words
- yinnung delluk (bamboo nose stick)[3]
- wennu. (conical helmet smeared with pipe clay and topped with a bone to which an emu plume is affixed)[4]
- barang (dangerous night spirit, noseless and with blanks for facial eyes, with two organs on the back for seeing at great distances.'[5]
Alternative names
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d Mackillop 1893, p. 254.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 223.
- ^ Basedow 1907, p. 9.
- ^ Basedow 1907, p. 16.
- ^ Basedow 1907, p. 18.
- ^ a b Basedow 1907, p. 2.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 224.
Sources
- Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31. Adelaide: 1–62.
- Dahl, Knut (1926). In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land (PDF). London: P. Allen & Sons. pp. 72–98.
- Eylmann, Erhard (1908). Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (PDF). Berlin: D.Reimer.
- JSTOR 2842215.
- Mackillop, Donald (1893). "Anthropological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Daly River, North Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 17. Adelaide: 254–264.
- JSTOR 27976164.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.