Aboriginal Australian people
TheYilba , also writtenIlba andJilba , are or were anAboriginal Australian people of the present-day state ofQueensland .
InNorman Tindale 's estimation, the Yilba were assigned a tribal domain extending over approximately 19,000 square kilometres (7,400 mi2 ), from the area ofCape River westwards as far as theGreat Dividing Range . Their northern boundaries lay roughly aboutPentland Hills andSeventy Mile Range . Their eastern extension was around theSuttor River , while their southern limits were atLake Buchanan . The Yilba were indigenous to places like onCampaspe River ; and theNatal Downs .[ 1] [ 2]
TheYilba language (and variant names as per the people) isextinct as of 2020[update] dialect ofBiri .[ 2]
Social organisation [ edit ] The Yilba were composed ofkin groups of which six at least are known:[ 3] [ 2]
Yukkaburra Wokkulburra (eel people)Pegulloburra Mungooburra Mungullaburra (spinifex people)Goondoolooburra (emu people)While stating that there are six"hordes" , Tindale gave the names of only three, two of which differ from the list in one of his primary sources on the six, namely:
He also adds a possible fourth group:
Yukkaburra, Yuckaburra Munkeeburra Moothaburra (horde name[ 2] Mungera, Mungerra (horde name[ 2] Eneby (language name)[ b] Pagulloburra ,[ 1] Pegulloburra (horde name)[ 2] ^ This attribution is contested, with some informants claiming that the Muqkibara were a branch of theMian .[ 1] ^ Tindale suggests the possibility that this may be a misreading byE. M. Curr of the wordElleby .[ 1] "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia" .AIATSIS . 14 May 2024.Armstrong, M. (1886)."The Watershed and Upper Portion of the Cape River" (PDF) . InCurr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.).The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 464– 467. Roth, W. E. (1897).Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (PDF) . Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer.Sutton, Peter (November 1973).Gugu-Badshun and its neighbours: A Linguistic Salvage Study (PDF) .Macquarie University M. A. honours thesis .Sutton, Peter (1975). Sutton, Peter (ed.).Languages of Cape York: papers presented to the linguistic symposium, part B, held in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial General Meeting, May, 1974 .Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies . pp. 116– 120.Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974)."Ilba (QLD)" .Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names .Australian National University .ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6 the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved17 January 2018 .Tompson, F.M.; Chatfield, W. (1886)."Natal Downs Station, Cape River" (PDF) . InCurr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.).The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Vol. 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 468– 483.
