Baiyungu Explained
See also: Baiyungu language. The Baiyungu are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Country
According to Norman Tindale's figures, the Baiyungu occupied some 4000mi2 on the Lower Lyndon and Minilya River, running in a southwesterly direction from the salt marshland down to Quobba. He puts their eastern frontier at Winning Pool, while stating that their northern extension went as far as the area of Giralia and Bullara, falling short of the coastal areas up to and near the at North West Cape on the Exmouth Gulf.
Alternative names
- Baijungo
- Baiong, Baiung, Biong
- Kakarakala ("eastern fires"): This is a generic ethnonym subsuming several tribes from Shark Bay to the North West Cape under one rubric, and apparently arose from its use in this sense among the Mandi. Apart from the Baiyungu, three other tribes came under this heading: the Inggarda, the Maia and the Yinikutira.
- Paiunggu, Bayungu
- Payungu
Some words
Notes
Citations
Sources
- Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
- Book: Dench, Alan . Yingkarta . 1998 . Lincom Europa . 1–82.
- Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . . 1 December 2017 . 8 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf . dead .
- Book: Tindale
, Norman Barnett
. Baijungu (WA) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/baijungu.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 . 27 November 2017 . 24 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190924170938/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/baijungu.htm . dead .
