Norman Tindale estimated that the Pilatapa had some 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2) of tribal land, ranging northeast of the northern edges of theFlinders Ranges and to the north of theLake Fromedrainage basin. On the northwest they lived also around northwest to what is now theStrzelecki Desert Lakes encompassingLake Blanche andBlanchewater. He placed their eastern extension at east toCallabonna approximately to the vicinity of Tilcha, while their southern boundaries were aroundWooltana and Hamilton Creek.[1]
^the componentkuna means "dung"; the term was used by tribes in the Flinders Ranges basically to refer to the impoverished soil of the land occupied by their northern neighbours, the Pilatapa.[1]
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