Wardal Explained

See also: Wardal language. The Wardal were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.

Country

Norman Tindale calculated by inference that the Wardal's lands covered around 15000mi2, from Lake Carnegie running west and northwest to Well 11 (Goodwin Soak) on the Canning Stock Route. Their southern boundaries lay round Lake Nabberu while their westernmost extension appears to have gone as far as the Old Bald Hill Station near Beyond Bluff.

Name

Wardal appears to mean 'west' and by extension, 'westerners'.

Alternative names

• Tjitijamba
• Tjitjijamba
• Waula (Pini exonym bearing the sense of "northerners")

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Wardal (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardal.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardal.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .