Putijarra Explained

See also: Putijarra language. The Putijarra are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Country

Putijarra territory, in Norman Tindale's estimation, extended over 20000mi2. They were to be found south of Lake George, and east to Kolajuru, and beyond the southeast of Kumpupintil Lake, latterly at Mendel in the direction of the Hutton Range. The frontier with the Mandjildjara lay at Tjundutjundu well on the Canning Stock Route. When drought struck they would press south to Kadidi near Lake Augusta, and the moon totem soak called Tjangara. Their most southerly boundary was at Pulburumal, the twelfth waterhole on the Canning Stock Route. Their border with the Kartudjara was at Lawulawu (Canning Stock Route Well 16).

Alternative names

• Potitjara, Putitjara
• Budidjara, Bududjara
• Purditara
• Pawutudjara
• Paodudjara
• Patudja
• Patudjara
• Partutudjara
• Bawndudjara
• Partutu (lake people)
• Ngondidjara (Kartudjara exonym)
• Kaltalbudara
• Kaltalbudjara
• Kaltalbudjira
• Poroko (Kokatja exonym)
• Barduwonga
• Badu, Pardu (?)
• Tutudjara

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Book: Bates, D. M. . Social organization of some Western Australian tribes . Daisy Bates (Australian author) . 14 . 387–400 . Australian Association for the Advancement of Science . 1913 .
• The Concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia . Berndt . Ronald M. . Ronald Berndt . . 30 . 2 . 81–107 . 40329194 . December 1960 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1959.tb00213.x .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Potidjara (WA) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/potidjara.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/potidjara.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .