The Perrakee are assumed to have been an indigenous Australian tribe, now extinct.

People

The name Perrakee is mentioned only once in the ethnographic literature, by R. H. Mathews, writing in 1900, where he mentions this

ethnonym An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...

, along with those of several other "large and important tribes" such as the Mariu, in the area straddling the

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and

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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 ...

, in his comprehensive list of Australian aboriginal tribes, could not identify the group, nor attribute to them any definite geographical location.

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* * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory