The Maikathari (Mayi-Thakurti) were an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...
people of the state of
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
.
Country
The Maithakari had, according to ethnologist
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
, approximately of tribal territory extending from the Williams River and
Cloncurry
Cloncurry is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Cloncurry had a population of 2,719 people.
Cloncurry is the administrative centre of the Shire of Cloncurry.
Cloncurry is known as ...
. Running north, its boundaries touched
Canobie on the
Cloncurry River
The Cloncurry River is situated in the Gulf Country of north west Queensland, Australia.
Geography
The headwaters of the river rise west of Mount Boorama near Mount Tracey in the Selwyn Range and initially flows north west then turns north ...
, and extended east to where
Julia Creek joins the Cloncurry, and also to Mount Fort Bowen. They were also present at
Dalgonally.
Social organisation and rites
They did not practise either circumcision or
subincision
Penile subincision is a form of genital modification or mutilation consisting of a urethrotomy, in which the underside of the penis is incised and the urethra slit open lengthwise, from the urethral opening (meatus) toward the base. The slit can ...
.
Alternative names
* Maiðakuri
* Maiðakui
* Maidhagudi, Maitakudi
* Mayatagoorri
* Mythugadi
* Majadhagudi
* Mythuggadi
* Mythaguddi, Mitagurdi, Mittagurdi, Mitagurdi, Mitakoodi, Mittakoodi.
* Mitrogoordi, Mitroogoordi
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland