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Kawadji (QLD)
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| | Location | Night Island and on the coast opposite; they visit outlying reefs in double-outriggered wooden canoes called tango ['ta?o]; they are intimately associated with the Ombila and also with the Pontunj whose language (Jangkonju) they speak. |
| Co-ordinates | 143°25'E x 13° 10'S |
| Area | 100 sq. m. including reefs (250 sq. km) |
| References | Hale and Tindale, 1933; Thomson, 1934, 1952; Tindale, 1940 and MS. |
| Alternative Names | Kawadji (term also used by Kandju and other interior tribes where ['kawai] = east), Mälnkänidji (['mal-?kan] = beach and ['idja] = belonging to), Jangkonju (language term shared with Pontunj), Yankonyu, 'Night Island people. |
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 338/1/15/1
Date 14 October 1936 - 1978?, 14 October 1936-26 October 1939, 1950s, 26 March 1968, 1978
Quantity 5.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22x26.5 cm, 799 pages, 27 inserts, 1 loose item
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Identifier AA 338/1/37
Date 1938 - 1963, 11 July 1903, 21 August-13 November, December 1938, June & July 1962, 22-29 July 1963
Quantity 6.8 cm, 1 buckram bound journal, 26.5x22.5cm, 3 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 338/15/41
Date 1938 - 1939, dates in annotation; map printed 1937
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 map, 69.0x101.5 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/9
Date 1966 - 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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