The Kurajarra were an
Aboriginal Australian people of the
Pilbara region of
Western Australia.
Their existence as a people was overlooked in
Norman Tindale's classic 1974 survey of Australian Aboriginal tribal groups and their language is unattested.
Country
The Kurajarra were a small tribe whose territorial extension is not known other than that its heartland lay in the McKay Range (''Pungkulyi'') some northwest of
Kumpupintil Lake
Kumpupintil Lake (pronounced ''goom-bu-pin-dil''), formerly known as Lake Disappointment, is an endorheic salt lake located in the Little Sandy Desert, east of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Description
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. They lived between the
Nyiyaparli to their west, the
Wanman
One-person operation (OPO), also known as driver-only operation (DOO), one-man operation (OMO), single person train operation (SPTO), or one-person train operation (OPTO), similarly to Driver Controlled Operation, is operation of a train, bus, ...
to the north, the
Kartudjara on their eastern and southeastern side, and the
Putidjara to the south.
People
Like the
Ngulipartu, the Kurajarra were a numerically small tribe which, under the stress of post-contact migrations and change, diminished rapidly, with many of them being absorbed into neighbouring tribes through intermarriage. Writing in 1989, Tonkinson stated that only a handful of descendants survived from the original tribe.
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Canning Stock Route
Mid West (Western Australia)