The Mandi, otherwise known as ''Manthi'', were an

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Mandi tribal territory encompassed some . Its northern frontier was just below Boolathanna, and from Carnarvon extended westwards as far as

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. It took in the lower Gascoyne River area and its swampy tributaries, with the southern boundary around Grey Point.

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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

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, both of which he regarded as independent tribes, should be reformulated, with the Mandi and Tedei actually representing two branches of the Yingkarta.

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