Bibulman Explained

The Bibulman (Pibelmen) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the southwestern region of Western Australia, a subgroup of the Noongar.

Name

Their autonym may be related to the word for stingray, pibilum.

Country

Pibelmen lands comprised around 3100mi2 of territory in the southwest. They were concentrated around the Lower Blackwood River and the hills between the Blackwood and the Warren River. Their eastern flank ran to Gardner River and Broke Inlet. The Scott River was also a part of their territory. Their inland extension ran to Manjimup and Bridgetown.

Alternative names

• Pepelman, Peopleman, Piblemen
• Bibulman, Bibulmun, Bibudmoun, Bibbulmun, Bebleman
• Bibilum
• Meeraman (Koreng exonym)
• Murram (Menang exonym)
• Bajongwongi (language name)

Some words

• mammon (father)
• nungun (mother)
• jangar (white man)
• dwardar (tame dog)
• yakine (wild dog)
• yonger (kangaroo)
• wager (emu)

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . . .
• A Few Notes on Some South-Western Australian Dialects . Bates . Daisy . The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . January–June 1914 . 44 . 65–82 . 10.2307/2843531 . 2843531 .
• Book: Gifford, Lord Edric Frederick . Lower Blackwood. Peopleman tribe . Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford . 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 . 1 . 362–363 . J. Ferres . Melbourne . https://archive.org/download/australianracei01currgoog/australianracei01currgoog.pdf .
• Notes on some tribes of Western Australia . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 1910 . 25 . 119–136 .
• 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 . Pibelmen (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pibelmen.htm . 23 August 2017 . 15 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190815224821/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pibelmen.htm . dead .