The Kalamaia are an
Aboriginal Australian
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people of the
Wheatbelt and
Goldfields-Esperance regions of
Western Australia
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.
Country
According to
Norman Tindale, Kalamaia lands stretched over some . Their eastward extension ran to
Bullabulling, while the northern boundaries lay around
Youanmi,
Lake Barlee
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Description
Lake Barlee is situated on the Yilgarn block southeast of Youanmi and north of Bullfinch, on the border betwe ...
, and Pigeon Rocks. To the west, their frontier was in the areas covered by
Burracoppin,
Mukinbudin,
Kalannie, and Lake Moore. Their southern flank went to
Mount Holland in the Parker Range. A term Jawan is applied to northwestern portions of tribe from. These lands included places like
Boorabbin and
Southern Cross
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.
Social organization and customs
The Kalamaia figure in the forefront of those tribes that included circumcision in their initiation ceremonies, and the called contiguous southwestern tribes which did not share this rite ''Mudia/Mudila/Mudilja'', a pejorative word referring to their physical states. Another term for such ''Mudiya'' was ''Minang'' ((people of the) south).
Daisy Bate's also refers to the tribes that occupied southern cross as Eastern Meenung with their territory ending near
Boorabbin.
Alternative names
* ''Ka'la:mai, Kalamaya, Kalamai''
* ''Kaprun''
* ''Jungaa'' (meaning "men")
* ''Jungal''
* ''Yungar, Youngar, Youngal''
* ''Takalako'' (
Njakinjaki exonym
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)
* ''Njindango''
* ''Natingero''
* ''Jawan'' (term used of Kalamaia clans north of Mukinbudin)
* ''Jaburu'' ("north")
* ''Yabro''
Notes
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance