Tedei Explained

The Tedei, otherwise known as the Thirrily, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. They are a branch of the Yingkarta.

Country

Tedei land consisted of some 3100mi2 extending from the east coast of Shark Bay through to the Wooramel River valley's headwaters as far as Pimbie, Carey Downs and the vicinity of Towrana. It included the coastal area north of Yaringa. inland to the headwaters, north only to Pimbie. Their limits were defined as a day's walk from either bank of the Wooramel.

People

The Tedei were once classified as an autonomous tribe. The work of linguist Peter Austin points to the conclusion that they, the Tedei/Thirrily, were actually a dialect division of the Yingkarta, together with the Mandi tribe.

Social organisation

The Tedei did not practice circumcision or Pazam.

Alternative names

• Tjoki
• Choekie
• Chockie

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Web site: Tindale Tribal Boundaries . . September 2016 . .
• Book: Austin, Peter . Aboriginal languages of the Gascoyne-Ashburton region . La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics 1:43–63. . Peter Austin (linguist) . 1988 . 1 . 43–63 . La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics .
• On the aborigines of Australia. . Oldfield . Augustus . Transactions of the Ethnological Society . London . 1865 . 3 . 215–298 . 10.2307/3014165 . 3014165 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Tedei (WA) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/tedei.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/tedei.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .