Mardidjali
The Marditjali were an
state of Victoria to South Australia.[1]
Name
Marditjali may not be the term used by the tribe itself, but an
exonym applied to them by tribes to their west.[2]
Since the ethnonym is composed of two words marti ("abrupt/difficult to understand") and tjale (speech) from Westernj languages indicating their language was hard to grasp.
Language
The Marditjali name for
their language
is unknown, but it was called Wintjabarap, designating the Wintjintanga horde by tribes to their west.
Country
Marditjali ranged over a traditional land encompassing around 2,000 square miles (5,200 km2) from.
Wimmera area of Goroke and west of Mount Arapiles; They ranged as far south as Struan, Apsley, and Edenhope. Their northern boundaries were around Bangham, Kaniva, and Servicetown.[1]
Marditjali tribal areas were characterized by swampy zones encircled by imposing country was characterized by large red gum forests The frontier with the Bungandidj (Buandik) around Eden hope was marked by a brusque change in tree type, as red gums yielded to scrub gums. Their western boundaries with the Meintangk on the Naracoorte Range are likewise ecologically defined by the rising terraces of wooded lime sand dunes.[3]
Social organisation
The Marditjali were divided into several camps
- Witjintanga
Alternative names
- Worangarait ([wora] = plain country, [ngara] = to exist in-name applied by Bunganditj)
- Worangarit, Wragarait
- Wintjabarap (language name)
- Lake Wallace tribe
- Keribial-barap
- Witjintanga
- Wichintunga
Some words
- bangg (man)
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 206.
- ^ Tindale 1974.
- ^ Tindale 1974, pp. 67–68.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.