Wardal
The Wardal were an
Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia
.
Country
Norman Tindale calculated by inference that the Wardal's lands covered around 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2), from Lake Carnegie running west and northwest to Well 11 (Goodwin Soak) on the Canning Stock Route. Their southern boundaries lay round Lake Nabberu while their westernmost extension appears to have gone as far as the Old Bald Hill Station near Beyond Bluff.[1]
Name
Wardal appears to mean 'west' and by extension, 'westerners'.[1]
Alternative names
- Tjitijamba.
- Tjitjijamba.
- Waula. (exonym bearing the sense of "northerners").[1]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 259.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.