The Bibulman (Pibelmen) 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 southwestern region of
Western Australia
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, a subgroup of the
Noongar
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...
.
Name
Their
autonym
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See also
* Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...
may be related to the word for
stingray, ''pibilum''.
Country
Pibelmen lands comprised around of territory in the southwest. They were concentrated around the
Lower Blackwood River and the hills between the Blackwood and the
Warren River
The Warren River is a tidal extension of the Palmer River in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 6.5 km (4 mi). There are no dams along the river's length.
Course
The river begins where the Palmer River widens just ...
. Their eastern flank ran to Gardner River and
Broke Inlet. The
Scott River
The Scott River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 9, 2011 river in Siskiyou County, California, United States. It is a tributary of the Klamath River, one of the ...
was also a part of their territory. Their inland extension ran to
Manjimup and
Bridgetown
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.
Alternative names
* ''Pepelman, Peopleman, Piblemen''
* ''Bibulman, Bibulmun, Bibudmoun, Bibbulmun, Bebleman''
* ''Bibilum''
* ''Meeraman'' (
Koreng 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, ...
)
* ''Murram'' (
Menang
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The points ...
exonym)
* ''Bajongwongi'' (language name)
Some words
* ''mammon'' (father)
* ''nungun'' (mother)
* ''jangar'' (white man)
* ''dwardar'' (tame dog)
* ''yakine'' (wild dog)
* ''yonger'' (kangaroo)
* ''wager'' (emu)
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