The Pini or Nana, or more specifically the Birniridjara, also spelt Piniridjara and Biniridjara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.
Country edit
Norman Tindale estimated Pini tribal lands to have encompassed approximately 14,000 square miles (36,000 km2), west of Lake Carnegie and the ephemeral Lake Wells to its south. The land took in Erlistoun Creek and Lake Darlot. Their northern frontier ran as far as Wongawol and Princes Range[1]
Alternative names edit
- Piniiri
- Piniridjara, Biniridjara
- Pandjanu, Bandjanu (a toponym referring to what is known now as Bandya Station)
- Banjanu
- Tjubun
- Madutjara. (Nangatadjara exonym).
- Jabura. (Tjalkadjara exonym meaning "northerners.")
- Birni
- Buranudjara. (?)
- Nangaritjara (Tjalkadjara term for their language)
- Wordako. (apparently indicating the language of the Lake Darlot people).[1]
Notes edit
Citations edit
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 256.
Sources edit
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Mathews, R. H. (October–December 1907). "Languages of some tribes of Western Australia". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 46 (187): 361–368. JSTOR 983478.
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Pini (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.