Yilba

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The Yilba, also written Ilba and Jilba, are or were an Aboriginal Australian people of the present-day state of Queensland.

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Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Yilba were assigned a tribal domain extending over approximately 19,000 square kilometres (7,400 sq mi), from the area of Cape River westwards as far as the Great Dividing Range. Their northern boundaries lay roughly about Pentland Hills and Seventy Mile Range. Their eastern extension was around the Suttor River, while their southern limits were at Lake Buchanan. The Yilba were indigenous to places like on Campaspe River; and the Natal Downs. [1] [2]

Language

The Yilba language (and variant names as per the people) is extinct as of 2020, with no speakers recorded since before 1975. It is regarded as a dialect of Biri. [2]

Social organisation

The Yilba were composed of kin groups of which six at least are known: [3] [2]

While stating that there are six "hordes", Tindale gave the names of only three, two of which differ from the list in one of his primary sources on the six, namely

he also adds a possible fourth group:

Alternative names

Notes

  1. ↑ This attribution is contested, with some informants claiming that the Muqkibara were a branch of the Mian. [1]
  2. ↑ Tindale suggests the possibility that this may be a misreading by E. M. Curr of the word Elleby. [1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Tindale 1974, p. 168.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 E55 Yilba at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Tompson & Chatfield 1886.

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