The Muluridji are an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...
people of the state of
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
.
Country
The Muluridji had an estimated (by
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
) of territory, starting from the
headwaters of the Mitchell River northwards as far as
Mount Carbine
Mount Carbine is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mount Carbine had a population of 94 people.
Geography
The locality is bounded to the east by the ridge of the Great Dividing ...
. The eastern frontier ran to
Rumula, while their southern boundary was on the
Atherton Tableland
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the B ...
at
Mareeba
Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia. Between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region. The town's name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning ''meeting of the water ...
. Their western limit was Woodville, mainly in the drier country west of the rainforest margin between
Biboohra and
Mount Molloy
Mount Molloy is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It is a historic mining and timber town, north of Cairns. The dominant industry in the area is cattle grazing; the town itself consists of a few shops an ...
.
Social organization
One clan name at least survives:
* ''Kokanodna''
Alternative names
* ''Muluridyi, Mulari-ji, Mularitchee, Mullridgey''
* ''Molloroiji''
* ''Moorlooratchee'' (
Wakara exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate them ...
)
* ''Koko-moloroitji, Koko-moloroiji'' (
Kokokulunggur exonym)
* ''Kokanodna''
Notes
Citations
Sources
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland