The Muluridji are an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
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 Muluridji had an estimated (
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 ...
) of territory, starting from the
headwaters of the Mitchell River northwards as far as
Mount Carbine. The eastern frontier ran to
Rumula, while their southern boundary was on the
Atherton Tableland
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia.
The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River. It was dammed to form an irrigation reservoir named Lake Tina ...
at
Mareeba
Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia. Between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region. The town's name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning ''meeting of the waters'' ...
. Their western limit was 'Woodville', mainly in the drier country west of the rainforest margin between
Biboohra and
Mount Molloy.
Social organization
One clan name at least survives:-
* ''Kokanodna.''
Alternative names
* ''Muluridyi, Mulari-ji, Mularitchee, Mullridgey.''
* ''Molloroiji.''
* ''Moorlooratchee.'' (
Wakara exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
)
* ''Koko-moloroitji, Koko-moloroiji.''(
Kokokulunggur exonym)
* ''Kokanodna.''
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Citations
Sources
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland