Pini people explained

The Pini or Nana, or more specifically the Birniridjara, also spelt Piniridjara and Biniridjara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia.

Country

Norman Tindale estimated Pini tribal lands to have encompassed approximately 14000mi2, west of Lake Carnegie and the ephemeral Lake Wells to its south. The land took in Erlistoun Creek and Lake Darlot. Their northern frontier ran as far as Wongawol and Princes Range

Alternative names

• Piniiri
• Piniridjara, Biniridjara
• Pandjanu, Bandjanu (a toponym referring to what is known now as Bandya Station)
• Banjanu
• Tjubun
• Madutjara. (Nangatadjara exonym).
• Jabura. (Tjalkadjara exonym meaning "northerners.")
• Birni
• Buranudjara. (?)
• Nangaritjara (Tjalkadjara term for their language)
• Wordako. (apparently indicating the language of the Lake Darlot people).

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Languages of some tribes of Western Australia . Mathews . R. H. . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . October–December 1907 . 46 . 187 . 361–368 . 983478 .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Pini (WA) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pini.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pini.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .