Djalakuru Explained

The Djalakuru were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

Little is known of the Djalakuru, and the extent of their land is inferred as the residue of what is unaccounted for when one has mapped the other historic tribal territories. On this principle, Norman Tindale deduced that they held sway over about 600mi2, along the coastal areas from west of Goulburn Island at Angularli Creek roughly to the vicinity of Malay Bay near Mountnorris Bay.

People

The only account we have of the Djalakuru comes from an overview of the Cobourg Peninsula written by George Windsor Earl in 1846.

Alternative name

• Jalakuru

Notes

Citations

Sources

• On the Aboriginal Tribes of the Northern Coast of Australia . Earl . G. Windsor . George Windsor Earl . . 1846 . 16 . 239–251 . 10.2307/1798232 . 1798232 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Djalakuru (NT) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/djalakuru.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/djalakuru.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .