The Djakunda 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 state of
Queensland
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Country
In Norman Tindale 's estimation, the Djakunda held roughly of territory between the
upper Boyne and
Auburn rivers. Their northern limits lay around
Hawkwood, which their southern reaches bordered the
Great Dividing Range and the area close to
Kumbia. Part of their territory was forested with the important ceremonial food source, the
bunya pine
''Araucaria bidwillii'', commonly known as the bunya pine and sometimes referred to as the false monkey puzzle tree, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the plant family Araucariaceae. It is found naturally in south-east Queensland Aust ...
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Language
Norman Tindale claimed that the Djakunda language bore resemblances to
Mbabaram, and suggested also that their small stature was reminiscent of the hypothetical
Barrinean people whose existence he, together with
Joseph Birdsell, had posited in the late 1930s.
Alternative names
* ''Djakanda''
* ''Djaka-nde''
* ''Dakundair''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland