Ballardong Explained

Ballardong are an indigenous Noongar people of the south western area of Western Australia.

Country

The Ballardong's land encompasses an estimated 10500mi2. Northwards they occupy the Avon River. From the east of York they extend to Tammin, Kununoppin, Waddouring Hill, Bencubbin, Toodyay, Goomalling, and the Wongan Hills. On their southern flank lies Pingelly and Wickepin. Their western frontier is at the Darling Scarp.

Economy

The Ballardong engaged in mining, quarrying stones to be shaped and sharpened for knives and multibarbed spears at Kalannie.

Alternative names

• Balardong
• Balladong, Ballardon
• Ballerdokking
• Boijangura, Boyangoora, Booyungur (hill people)
• Maiawongi (language name)
• Minang ("south", used by the Kalamaia of the Ballardong and other southern tribes' languages), Boyangoora, Booyungur
• Mudila, Mudilja, Mudi:a (general Kalamaia exonym for the Ballardong and other uncircumcised tribes to their southwest)
• Toode-nunjer (a coastal exonym for the Ballardong, properly, Tu:denyunga (Toodyay men))
• Waljuk
• Warranger
• Warrangul, Warrangle ("koala country"; ethnonym also applied to the Koreng)

Language

• chungar (brown man)
• doorda (tame dog)
• maman (father)
• unkan (mother)
• yockine (wild dog)

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Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . . .
• Book: Gilchrist, J. . The Perth Tribe . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 1 . 332–335 . https://archive.org/download/australianracei01currgoog/australianracei01currgoog.pdf .
• Book: Hackett, D.E. . The York District . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 1 . 342–345 . https://archive.org/download/australianracei01currgoog/australianracei01currgoog.pdf .
• Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and Adjoining Country . Nind . Scott . Isaac Scott Nind . . 1831 . 1 . 21–51 . 10.2307/1797657 . 1797657 .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . . 1 December 2017 . 8 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308145114/https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf . dead .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Balardong (WA) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/balardong.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/balardong.htm.