Marri Tjevin Explained

The Maridjabin (Maridan) or Marrisjabin, were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

Marridjabin is a dialect of Marrithiyel, one of the Western Daly languages.

Country

The Maridjabin's territory occupied some 300mi2 predominantly of swampland at mouth of the Moyle River and along the coast near Cape Dombey, and the hinterland for about 20 miles east of that coast.

Alternative names

• Murindjabin (exonym applied to them by the Murrinh-Patha)
• Murintjabin
• Murintjaran

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Book: Falkenberg, Johannes . Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District . 1962 . First published 1948 . .
• Book: Green, Ian . Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory . . September 1989 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Maridan (NT) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/maridan.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/maridan.htm. 978-0-708-10741-6 .