The Yanda were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
The Yanda lived north of Warenda about the headwaters of the Hamilton River tributary of the Georgina River, and had, according to Norman Tindale's calculations, tribal lands of some 3,100 square miles (8,000 km2). They were also the indigenous people of Toolebuc and Lucknow. [1]
The Yanda were the most easterly aboriginal tribe to have accepted both circumcision and subincision into their initiatory rites. [1] On ceremonial occasions, Yanda women adorned themselves with a distinctive ornament called a bowra, fashioned from two kangaroo teeth, fixed together with sinews and resins at the base. [2] They consumed pituri by chewing on a compound of it made with the ashes of gidea leaves. [3]
Yanda lands were first occupied by whites in 1878, at which time they were estimated to number some 100, several of them octogenarians. Within less than a decade, the figure had been halved, with the remnant of 50 consisting of 15 men, 20 women and 15 children. [2]
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