The Mandi, otherwise known as ''Manthi'', 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 Isl ...
people of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
Country
Mandi tribal territory encompassed some . Its northern frontier was just below
Boolathanna, and from
Carnarvon extended westwards as far as
Doorawarrah. It took in
the lower Gascoyne River area and its swampy tributaries, with the southern boundary around Grey Point.
People
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 ...
defined the Mandi as a distinct tribe. Later work by the area language expert
Peter Austin concluded that Tindale's distinction between the Mandi and the
Tedei, both of which he regarded as independent tribes, should be reformulated, with the Mandi and Tedei actually representing two branches of the
Yingkarta.
Alternative names
* ''Maandi''
* ''Nandu''
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Gascoyne