The Unjadi (Unyadi) were 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
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupació ...
of northern
Queensland
)
, 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
, establishe ...
.
Language
According to Lauriston Sharp, the
Unjadi language differed only marginally from that spoken by the neighbouring
Okara.
Country
The Unjadi's traditional lands, embracing some of territory, lay around the upper
Dulhunty tributary of the Ducie river as far north as the headwaters of the
Jardine River
The Jardine River is the largest river of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course
The headwaters of the river rise southwest of Helby Hill in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a north westerly direction parallel ...
.
Social organization
The American anthropologist
R. Lauriston Sharp described the Unjadi as belonging to what he called the
Jathaikana type with regard to their totemic organization. By this he meant that the Unjadi lacked a
moiety
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Chemistry
* Moiety (chemistry), a part or functional group of a molecule
** Moiety conservation, conservation of a subgroup in a chemical species
Anthropology
* Moiety (kinship), either of two groups into which a society is ...
and section division. Their totemic clans were
patrilineal
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritan ...
whose totems were not normally tabu, tabus being applied rigorously only to personal totems from the mother's clan, which were assigned to male and female individuals with the onset of puberty.
Alternative names
* ''Unyadi.''
* ''Onyengadi.''
* ''Oyungo, Oyonggo.'' (a
Tjongkandji 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, ...
).
* ''Empikeno.'' ( a
Jathaikana exonym)
* ''Umtadee.'' (?)
* ''Wundjur.'' (?)
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland