Bidjara (Bulloo River)

The Bidjara people, also spelt Bitjara or Bithara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of south-western Queensland. They spoke a dialect of the Ngura language.[1] They are not to be confused with the Warrego River Pitjara or the Badjiri of the Paroo River, both of whose traditional lands are further to the east of the state.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated their lands as encompassing approximately 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2), centered around Bulloo Downs, south to the south to Bulloo Lake floodplain. Their western border lay at the Grey Range. Their northern limits were at Orient, and their eastern frontier was around Clyde.[2]

Social organization and customs

The Bitjara included circumcision in their initiatory rites.

Alternative names
  • Bithara.
  • Pitteroo.
  • Minkabari. (language name),
  • Wilya.[2]

Some words
  • mirre. (tame dog)
  • urni (father)
  • ummadi. (mother)
  • birri-birri. (whiteman).[3]

Notes

Citations
  1. L43 Bidjara at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Tindale 1974, p. 166.
  3. Sullivan 1886, p. 42.

Sources
  • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Myles, F. W. (1886). "Thargominda, Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 36–41.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Sullivan, A. P. (1886). "Lower Bulloo River" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 42–43.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Bitjara (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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