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Batjala (QLD)
| Location | Fraser or Great Sandy Island (n. n. Gari); also on the mainland coast south to Noosa Head. Their name Batjala is said to mean 'sea folk,' however, their term for 'no' is ['ba] and this may be the real derivation since ['tjala] means 'tongue.' The majority of survivors were transferred to Yarrabah, near Cairns, about 1902 and we studied them there in 1938. Curr apparently did not distinguish between the real inhabitants of Fraser Island and Kabikabi mission residents from the adjoining mainland. As confirmed by Winterbotham data, the Batjala had access to the mainland along the lower course of Tinana Creek and north along the coast to Pialba. The southern horde groups under the name Dulingbara extended from about the southern third of the island to Noosa Head on the mainland and behaved much as if a separate tribe with some affiliations with the Kabikabi. In all nineteen horde names have been reported from the island, of which some probably belonged to the northern Ngulungbara who insisted they were a separate people. This island with a reputed original population of 2,000 would have been one of the more densely occupied areas in Australia, exceeded only by the Kaiadilt of Bentinck Island. Such densities seem possible chiefly when fish and reef products are freely available. |
Co-ordinates | 152°55'E x 25°45'S |
Area | 1,700 sq. m. (4,400 sq. km.) |
References | Brooke in Howitt, 1884; Commissioner in Curr, 1887; Curr, 1887; 134; Mathew in Curr, 1887; Mathew, 1910; Kelly, 1935; Tindale, 1938 MS, 1940; Winterbotham, 1954; Reeves and Miller, 1964; Colliver, 1968. |
Alternative Names | Badjela, Badtala, Batyala (Wakawaka term applied to coastal people), Badyala, Patyala, Bidhala (Kabikabi term applied to coastal people), Butchulla, Dulingbara (group of hordes), Ngulungbara (group of hordes at north end claiming to be a separate tribe), Thoorgine (name of the island). |
This information is reproduced from NB Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Please be aware that much of the data relating to Aboriginal language group distribution and definition has undergone revision since 1974. Please note also that this catalogue represents Tindale's attempt to depict Aboriginal tribal distribution at the time of European contact. |
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Series AA338/01 - Bound volumes of expedition and office journals, notes and compilations
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Identifier AA 338/1/15/1
Date 14 October 1936 - 1978?, 14 October 1936-26 October 1939, 1950s, 26 March 1968, 1978
Quantity 5.5 cm, 1 buckram bound volume, 22x26.5 cm, 799 pages, 27 inserts, 1 loose item
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Identifier AA 338/1/37
Date 1938 - 1963, 11 July 1903, 21 August-13 November, December 1938, June & July 1962, 22-29 July 1963
Quantity 6.8 cm, 1 buckram bound journal, 26.5x22.5cm, 3 loose items
Series AA338/07 - Index cards relating to language research
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Identifier AA 338/7/2/58
Date 1938 - c. 1958
Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 29 cm of cards
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Identifier AA 338/7/2/59
Date 1938 - c. 1958
Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 24 cm of cards
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Identifier AA 338/7/2/60
Date 1938 - c. 1958
Quantity 15.4 cm, 1 metal filing drawer, approx. 29.5 cm of cards
Series AA338/08 - Compiled vocabularies and grammatical sketches
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Identifier AA 338/8/20
Date 1934 - c. 1976
Quantity 44 cm, 1 type 10.1 box
Series AA338/15 - Maps - Expeditions, field work and personal research (not including South East of South Australia)
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Identifier AA 338/15/40
Date 1938 - 1939, dates in annotation; map printed 1937
Quantity 1 map, 69.0x101.5 cm
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Identifier AA 338/15/129
Date 1954 - 1958, dates in annotations
Quantity 1 map, 44.0x59.0 cm
Series AA338/18 - Maps - 'World Aeronautical Chart series'
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Identifier AA 338/18/24
Date 1967 - c. 1974, from date in annotation through approximate period map was used Map printed 1965
Quantity 1 map, 51.5x76.5 cm
Series AA338/22 - Maps - Continental distribution of material culture traits, etc.
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Identifier AA 338/22/3
Date c. 1940 - ?, date of annotation unknown
Quantity 1 map, 34.0x44.5 cm
Series AA338/23 - Maps - Sketch maps showing Aboriginal 'tribes'
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Identifier AA 338/23/3
Date c. 1940 - c. 1974, approximate date range - map undated
Quantity 1 map, 22.5x30.0 cm
Series AA338/26 - 'Manuscript Documents on Tribes'
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Identifier AA 338/26/19/1-9
Date July 1956 - October 1956
Quantity 9 pages
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Series AA346/04 - Sociological, Anthropological, Vital Statistics and ACER data recorded onto cards by Board for Anthropological Research expedition members, 1923-1963.
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Identifier AA 346/4/20
Date May 1938 - June 1939, some cards have later annotations
Quantity 350 cm, 11 file card drawers containing data cards
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Series AA689/09 - Anthropometric data cards from Board for Anthropological Research expeditions and cranial data cards recorded at numerous institutions
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Identifier AA 689/9/16
Date 1938 - 1939, dates of expedition
Quantity 166 cm, 41 grey Albox folders
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