The Maridjabin (Maridan) or Marrisjabin,[1] were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
editMarridjabin is a dialect of Marrithiyel, one of the Western Daly languages.[1]
Country
editThe Maridjabin's territory occupied some 300 square miles (780 km2) predominantly of swampland at mouth of the Moyle River and along the coast near Cape Dombey, and the hinterland for about 20 miles east of that coast.[2]
Alternative names
edit- Murindjabin (exonym applied to them by the Murrinh-Patha)
- Murintjabin
- Murintjaran[2]
Notes
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Green 1989, p. 8.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 230.
Sources
edit- Falkenberg, Johannes (1962) [First published 1948]. Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. George Allen & Unwin.
- Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory (PDF). ANU PhD.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maridan (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.