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Bidawal (VIC)
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| | Location | Coast between Green Cape, N.S.W., and Cape Everard (Point Hicks); inland to Delegate, N.S.W., and on headwaters of Cann and Bern rivers, chiefly in rain forest and wet sclerophyll country inhospitable to others. Two fullblood men survived in 1964 with mixed descendants living in 1970 at Nowa Nowa. Mathews placed the western boundary at Cape Conran but this area belonged to the Krauatungalung. |
| Co-ordinates | 149°20'E x 37°20'S |
| Area | 2,700 sq. m. (7,000 sq. km) |
| References | Parker, 1843; Smyth, 1878; Fison and Howitt, 1880; Howitt, 1884, 1904; Bulmer in Curr, 1887; Curr, 1887; Mathews, 1898 (Gr. 6468), 1907 (Gr. 6483), 1908 (Gr. 6474, 6570), 1909 (Gr. 6474), 1916-1918 (Gr. 6472); Tindale, 1940, 1964 MS, 1970 MS. |
| Alternative Names | Birdhawal, Birtowall, Bidwell, Bidwill, Bidwelli, Biduelli, Beddiwell, Maap (['ma:p] = man), Muk-dhang (language name where ['mak] = good and ['ðan] = speech), Kwai-dhang (language name given by Krauatungalung means 'rough speech'). |
This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact. |
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Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations
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Identifier AA 338/1/43/2
Date 28 October 1954 - 8 February 1964
Quantity 4.1 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 21.6x26.4cm, 432 pages with 2 inserts and 2 loose items
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/53
Date 1940, date in annotation; date of printing unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x76.0 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/169
Date c. 1979 - c. 1980, dates in annotations; date of printing unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.0x75.0 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/173
Date c. 1970 - 1980?, date of annotation and printing unknown
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 50.5x74.5 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/46
Date 1961 - c. 1974, from date of printing through approximate period map was used
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
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