Dyirbal people

The Dyirbal, also called Jirrbal, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in northern Queensland, both one tribe (the Dyirbalŋan or 'Tully River blacks')[1] and a group of related contiguous peoples included under that label as the Dyirbal tribes.[2] They live on the upper Murray river of the Atherton Tableland. Their name is used as a generic term to refer specifically to one of eight groups, the others being Yidinji, Ngadyan, Mamu, Girramay, Wargamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaɽam.[3][a]

  1. ^ Dixon 1972, p. 30.
  2. ^ Dixon 1982, p. 44.
  3. ^ Dixon 1972, pp. 337–351.


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