Yadaneru, also written ''Jeteneru'', refers to a tribe at one time thought to have existed in the
Cape York Peninsula
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of
northern Queensland
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.
Country
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 ...
states that the Yetteneru possessed tribal lands of about centered around Saltwater Creek, in the southwest corner of
Princess Charlotte Bay
Princess Charlotte Bay is a large bay on the east coast of Far North Queensland at the base of Cape York Peninsula, 350 km north northwest of Cairns. Princess Charlotte Bay is a part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and it is a habit ...
, and that their inland extension went to somewhere in the vicinity of
Musgrave.
People
During ethnographic work by Tindale and H.M. Hale, reports reached them that a tribe of this name, once existed, whose grounds were along the Saltwater Creek and Annie River, somewhere west of the
Kokolamalama inland from
Princess Charlotte Bay
Princess Charlotte Bay is a large bay on the east coast of Far North Queensland at the base of Cape York Peninsula, 350 km north northwest of Cairns. Princess Charlotte Bay is a part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and it is a habit ...
. By that time the tribe, if it were an independent reality, verged on disappearing. The authors wrote that:
They are called the " salt pan blackfellows" by natives speaking English, and use a dialectic variation of Kokolamalama. They are nearly extinct, only one old man and five women remaining alive in 1927, There were two clans, one on the seashore and one inland, but little could be learned about them.'
Alternative names
* ''Yadaneru.''
* ''Wurangung.''
* ''Ompindamo.''(?)
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland
Far North Queensland