Kartudjara

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The Kartudjara are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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Country

The Kartudjara's traditional lands extended over 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi) from Madaleri, north of Kumpupintil Lake around Well 22 down southwest towards Pulpuruma (Well 12). Their western boundary lay on the southern side of the Rudall River (Karlamilyi) as far as the Robertson Range and the eastern headwaters of both the Jigalong and Savory Creeks. The country was characterized by endemic parallel sand-dune formations. [1] [2]

History

Around the 1890s the Kartudjara pressured the Niabali to their northwest, off Savory Creek, forcing them to move roughly 97 kilometres (60 mi) to Balfour Downs. The Kartudjara thereafter went on to water at the Rudall River, which became in time their northern frontier. Their neighbours beyond the mulga were the spinifex plainsmen, the Wanman and the Nyangumarta. [3]

The Kartudjara became, in recent times, one of the two core constituent tribal groups forming the Martu. That term actually signified "northerners", but originally was used primarily to denote people who had undergone initiation rites to become fully-fledged tribesmen. [4]

Some Kartudjara were received as "lawmen" by the coastal peoples to their west in the post-war period, since they, like other desert tribes, had conserved the traditional ceremonial lore that had been lost to tribes on the Indian Ocean's coastal areas. [5]

Alternative names

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 244.
    2. ↑ "Kartudjara (WA)". South Australian Museum. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
    3. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 224.
    4. ↑ Tindale 1974, pp. 224, 244.
    5. ↑ Gray 1978, p. 192.

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