Jabirr Jabirr
The Jabirr Jabirr are an
Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia
.
Jabirr Jabirr, is also written as Jabirrjabirr and with other spellings such as DjaberrDjaberr, Djaberadjabera, Dyaberdyaber and Jabba Jabba. Their language is the Jabirr Jabirr language.
Country
Aboriginal tribes around Derby, WA
The Djaberadjabera held, according to Norman Tindale's estimation, some 800 square miles (2,100 km2) of tribal land on the western side of the Dampier Peninsula. From the coastal area of Sandy Point at Beagle Bay, their territory went south as far as Cape Bertholet. Their inland extension was about 30 miles.[1]
Running clockwise, their neighbours were, to the north, the
History of contact
By 1953 only 5 members of the tribe were still known to survive, and in 1974 Tindale stated that they were virtually extinct.[1]
Alternative spellings
- Djaberadjaber, Djaberdjaber[1]
- Dyaberdyaber
- DjaberrDjaberr
- Jabba Jabba[4]
- Jabirrjabirr[2]
- Tjabartjabara, Tjabirtjabira (exonym)
- Tjabiratjabir
Notes
Citations
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Bischofs, P. Jos (1908). "Die Niol-Niol ein Eingeborenenstamm in Nordwest Australien". Anthropos. 3 (1): 32–40. JSTOR 40442523.
- JSTOR 40327417.
- JSTOR 40327434.
- McKenzie, Vincent (13 August 2019). "Education is the key to keeping Bardi language and culture strong". Life. ABC. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- JSTOR 40341058.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- JSTOR 40450834.
- JSTOR 40449676.